Simon created LOGBACK-1430: ------------------------------ 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.3.1#73012)