Re: ANSI escape character

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:53:44 -0300
> From: djalma nogueira schwindt <address@hidden>
> Cc: 
> 
>  BEGIN{cor="\033[1;33;40m"
>        printf "%s",cor
>        print "awk string"
> }
> 
> When run with version 3.0.6, the result is correct. It is shown only to
> literal "awk string" in yellow.

I don't know how did v3.0.4/6 do that, because the Windows terminal
does not recognize ANSI escape sequences.  Perhaps whoever built the
binary of 3.0.4 made some special changes in Gawk to do this, or maybe
it wasn't a Windows port at all.

> But when I use the version 3.1.6, it shows:
> 
> ←[1;33;40mawk string
> 
> That is, the ANSI escape character is not interpreted.

I wouldn't expect anything else on Windows.