[logback-dev] [JIRA] (LOGBACK-1430) heuristics to automatically disable ANSI color code is not supported

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Simon created LOGBACK-1430:
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             Summary: heuristics to automatically disable ANSI color code is not supported
                 Key: LOGBACK-1430
                 URL: https://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1430
             Project: logback
          Issue Type: Improvement
         Environment:  

 

 
            Reporter: Simon
            Assignee: Logback dev list


Logback ConsoleAppender supports color output using ANSI code but some consoles does not support it well and so print some crappy characters (like [eclipse IDE console|https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=112948] or some windows platform ):
{code:java}
[main] [34mINFO [0;39m [36mo.e.l.s.d.Server[0;39m - Web server started at http://0.0.0.0:8080/. 
{code}
This makes this feature hard to use because you should accept to be ugly in some conditions to be pretty in others. The trade-off doesn't seem worthy.

A solution could be to add some heuristic to know if logback should use ANSI code or not.
You could have a look at the way picocli do it : [https://github.com/remkop/picocli/issues/512#issuecomment-429170587]


If you're not so confident because you don't want to break behavior of ConsoleAppender, you could begin with an other ConsoleAppender.



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