ANSI color codes - mixed results

[mishaxz]

note: the following � are not correct because pasting them in this github form doesn't work, so just assume they are that special ansi escape code symbol.

when I try to output ANSI color codes from my java program that I run under TerminalFX, it doesn't work. However, my codes are like this �[33m and they work in various other terminals.

but in TerminalFX I get

?[0mRESET?[0m
?[1mBOLD?[0m
?[4mUNDERLINE?[0m
?[7mINVERSE?[0m
?[30mBLACK?[0m
?[31mRED?[0m
?[32mGREEN?[0m
?[33mORANGE?[0m
?[34mBLUE?[0m
?[35mMAGENTA?[0m
?[36mCYAN?[0m
?[37mLIGHT_GRAY?[0m
?[41mBG_RED?[0m
?[42mBG_GREEN?[0m

would you know what I'm doing wrong? is there any way to run a java program under TerminalFX and be able to display ansi colors from it?

however, if I run the following in TerminalFX, it displays colors fine.

win10colors.cmd

this works, displays colors in TerminalFX

@echo off
cls
echo �[101;93m STYLES �[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[0m �[0mReset�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[1m �[1mBold�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[4m �[4mUnderline�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[7m �[7mInverse�[0m
echo.
echo �[101;93m NORMAL FOREGROUND COLORS �[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[30m �[30mBlack�[0m (black)
echo ^<ESC^>[31m �[31mRed�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[32m �[32mGreen�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[33m �[33mYellow�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[34m �[34mBlue�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[35m �[35mMagenta�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[36m �[36mCyan�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[37m �[37mWhite�[0m
echo.
echo �[101;93m NORMAL BACKGROUND COLORS �[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[40m �[40mBlack�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[41m �[41mRed�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[42m �[42mGreen�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[43m �[43mYellow�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[44m �[44mBlue�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[45m �[45mMagenta�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[46m �[46mCyan�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[47m �[47mWhite�[0m (white)
echo.
echo �[101;93m STRONG FOREGROUND COLORS �[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[90m �[90mWhite�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[91m �[91mRed�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[92m �[92mGreen�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[93m �[93mYellow�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[94m �[94mBlue�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[95m �[95mMagenta�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[96m �[96mCyan�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[97m �[97mWhite�[0m
echo.
echo �[101;93m STRONG BACKGROUND COLORS �[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[100m �[100mBlack�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[101m �[101mRed�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[102m �[102mGreen�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[103m �[103mYellow�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[104m �[104mBlue�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[105m �[105mMagenta�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[106m �[106mCyan�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[107m �[107mWhite�[0m
echo.
echo �[101;93m COMBINATIONS �[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[31m                     �[31mred foreground color�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[7m                      �[7minverse foreground ^<-^> background�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[7;31m                   �[7;31minverse red foreground color�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[7m and nested ^<ESC^>[31m �[7mbefore �[31mnested�[0m
echo ^<ESC^>[31m and nested ^<ESC^>[7m �[31mbefore �[7mnested�[0m
pause

[sghpjuikit]

@mishaxz Am I correct to assume you are running into this on Win10? Does it affect other platforms?

[mishaxz]

windows 10 yes, I don't know I haven't tried other platforms. I can't remember much what I was doing at that time with this but definitely only on windows 10.

[myrlyn]

This needs to be broadened to address escape sequences in general - terminal resizing, and other usage of escape characters to query the terminal/terminfo should be fixed as well.

[Eesha-Jain]

It should work depending on what platform you are using. For example, if you use Eclipse, then the first part of this video talks about how to add ANSI (and then proceeds to integrate ANSI with Java): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYCYXfVTF8