diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 0e9b351..385eb89 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ if ( $^O ne 'MSWin32' ) {
     }
 }
 else {
-    $PREREQ_PM{'Win32::Process'} = '0.14';
-    $PREREQ_PM{'Win32API::File'} = '0.0901';
+    $PREREQ_PM{'Win32::Process'}    = '0.14';
+    $PREREQ_PM{'Win32::ShellQuote'} = 0;
+    $PREREQ_PM{'Win32API::File'}    = '0.0901';
     if ( $] >= 5.021006 ) {
         $PREREQ_PM{'Win32API::File'} = '0.1203';
     }
diff --git a/lib/IPC/Run/Win32Helper.pm b/lib/IPC/Run/Win32Helper.pm
index 8dc0a15..8475c62 100644
--- a/lib/IPC/Run/Win32Helper.pm
+++ b/lib/IPC/Run/Win32Helper.pm
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ require POSIX;
 
 use Text::ParseWords;
 use Win32::Process;
+use Win32::ShellQuote ();
 use IPC::Run::Debug;
 use Win32API::File qw(
   FdGetOsFHandle
@@ -323,6 +324,11 @@ trying to be a little cross-platform here.  The only difference is
 that "\" is *not* treated as an escape except when it precedes 
 punctuation, since it's used all over the place in DOS path specs.
 
+TODO: strip caret escapes?
+
+TODO: use
+https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/main-function-command-line-args#parsing-c-command-line-arguments
+
 TODO: globbing? probably not (it's unDOSish).
 
 TODO: shebang emulation? Probably, but perhaps that should be part
@@ -442,11 +448,7 @@ sub win32_spawn {
     }
 
     my $process;
-    my $cmd_line = join " ", map {
-        ( my $s = $_ ) =~ s/"/"""/g;
-        $s = qq{"$s"} if /[\"\s]|^$/;
-        $s;
-    } @$cmd;
+    my $cmd_line = Win32::ShellQuote::quote_native(@$cmd);
 
     _debug "cmd line: ", $cmd_line
       if _debugging;
diff --git a/t/run.t b/t/run.t
index 3980435..da18243 100644
--- a/t/run.t
+++ b/t/run.t
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ sub get_warnings {
 select STDERR;
 select STDOUT;
 
-use Test::More tests => 268;
+use Test::More tests => 272;
 use IPC::Run::Debug qw( _map_fds );
 use IPC::Run qw( :filters :filter_imp start );
 
@@ -210,6 +210,31 @@ is $? >> 8, 42;
 is( _map_fds, $fd_map );
 $fd_map = _map_fds;
 
+##
+## Arguments bearing most bytes, excluding NUL (unsupported) and BEL (noisy and
+## not otherwise special).  Arguments bearing special sequences of bytes.
+##
+{
+    local $ENV{PERL_UNICODE};
+    delete $ENV{PERL_UNICODE};
+
+    my @bytes = map { $_ == 7 ? () : pack( 'C', $_ ); } 1 .. 0xFF;
+    $r = run(
+        [ $perl, '-e', 'binmode STDOUT; print join "\0", @ARGV', @bytes ],
+        '>', \$out
+    );
+    eok( $out, join "\0", @bytes );
+
+    my $sequences = qq{\\"\\az\\\\"\\\\\\};
+    foreach my $payload ( join( '', @bytes ), $sequences, "$sequences\n" ) {
+        $r = run(
+            [ $perl, '-e', 'binmode STDOUT; print @ARGV', $payload ],
+            '>', \$out
+        );
+        eok( $out, $payload );
+    }
+}
+
 ##
 ## A function
 ##
diff --git a/t/win32_compile.t b/t/win32_compile.t
index 0c80838..da90f8b 100644
--- a/t/win32_compile.t
+++ b/t/win32_compile.t
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ BEGIN {
         plan( skip_all => "android does not support getprotobyname()" );
     }
 
-    $INC{$_} = 1 for qw( Win32/Process.pm Win32API/File.pm );
+    $INC{$_} = 1 for qw(
+      Win32/Process.pm Win32/ShellQuote.pm Win32API/File.pm );
 
     package Win32API::File;