Color ANSI codes don't work anymore

Question

I wrote a program in C++ about 2/3 weeks ago. It has a line where it should print some text with a specific color. To do so I decided to use ANSI escape color codes. I know there are other ways, but this one seems the most straight forward.

So for example I used: std::cout << "\x1B[31mTEST RED\033[0m\n"; to print red text.

I compiled and linked the code using MSVC, it produced an .exe file, I ran it and all worked fine.

Yesterday I ran that same .exe file again, but this time it printed the string "←[31mTEST RED←[0m", white.

I don't know how is this possible, I haven't touched the .exe file in any way, but 2 weeks ago it worked, now it doesn't!

I contacted MS support, and they tried to update my Windows version to the newest one, but it didn't solved the issue, so they told me to ask here.

If you need more information I'll give it to you as soon as possible. Thanks!

Answer 1

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Leon