Re: How to interpret ansi escape code like "\033[; 1; 31mHello World\033[0m"?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, John Daker wrote:

> I'm writing a telnet client with ncurses, and I cannot handle ansi
> escape code like "\033[;1;31mHello World\033[0m" read through socket
> from a telnet server,
>
> Can ncurses parse ansi escape code to color system of himself?

no - I've considered making a demo to show this, but it wouldn't be done
in the library (long explanation...)

> Or is there any third party lib to do this?

I don't recall any, offhand -

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