Merge pull request #14134 from lukebakken/rabbitmq-server-14101-3

Follow up to #14132

Author: ikavgo

deps/rabbitmq_cli/lib/rabbitmq/cli/formatters/json.ex

@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ defmodule RabbitMQ.CLI.Formatters.Json do
     "Ref(#{inspect(data)})"
   end
 
+  defp convert_erlang_strings([]),  do: []
+
   defp convert_erlang_strings(data) when is_list(data) do
     try do
       case :unicode.characters_to_binary(data, :utf8) do