powershell 7 is an undocumented requirement? initialize-repo.ps1 seems to have an encoding issue hit going through the initial "Get Started"

[fschwiet]

Running on Windows 11 with claude integration and powershell scripts, I hit an error fairly early in /speckit-constitution

Claude had been launched from a powershell terminal with $PSVersionTable.PSVersion equal to 5.1, if that matters.

● PowerShell(.\.specify\extensions\git\scripts\powershell\initialize-repo.ps1)
  ⎿  Error: Exit code 1
     At C:\code\nosabokit\.specify\extensions\git\scripts\powershell\initialize-repo.ps1:69 char:43
     + Write-Host "✓ Git repository initialized"
     +                                           ~
     The string is missing the terminator: ".
         + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParseException
         + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TerminatorExpectedAtEndOfString

The line referenced https://github.com/github/spec-kit/blame/a08af08415432db2ae15b70e82400eaad9dbfd2f/extensions/git/scripts/powershell/initialize-repo.ps1#L69 has a special character... not sure how that should be handled, maybe the file would work with a BOM

[fschwiet]

It seems the powershell version does matter, I did not see the issue after updating to powershell 7.6.2.

[mnriem]

This issue has been fixed by PR #2709 (merged to main via c7e0cac), which replaced all non-ASCII characters in shipped .ps1 files with ASCII equivalents (✓ → [OK], ✗ → [FAIL], — → --) and added regression tests to prevent reintroduction.

PR #2708 addressed the same fix but was superseded by #2709, which additionally addressed Copilot review feedback (recursive .ps1 discovery in tests, updated command docs to match new output).

Closing as completed.