Support or explain usage in Windows console

[matthew-a-thomas]

In a Windows console you just get garbage like this:

�[48;2;159;114;0m �[0m

Probably need to investigate https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-modes

Perhaps this functionality needs to go into another crate (or perhaps someone has already implemented this in another crate)

[matthew-a-thomas]

Added short blurb in readme and docs
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[64]

Can you explain why this is in the rust-osdev organisation? Not a criticism, I just don’t see how it’s related

[matthew-a-thomas]

@64 Sure: phil-opp/blog_os#603

In summary, Phillip's blog_os does terminal output. This adds colors. None of the other ANSI/terminal color crates support no_std.

I raised this specific issue about Windows consoles because there's nothing about this crate that is environment specific, except that Windows requires additional configuration. I haven't really done anything more than link to MS documentation because I think it's out of the scope of this crate.

Thanks for asking!

[64]

Oh, cool! I think I half expected this to be some kind of state machine for parsing ANSI escape sequences into color info that you can use in VGA textmode (I have that in my kernel). But this also makes sense. Sorry for hijacking the issue, not entirely sure why I decided to do that. Good luck!

[phil-opp]

Maybe bootimage can set the appropriate console modes on Windows when running/testing a kernel.

[matthew-a-thomas]

I'm going to close this because I think the comment in the readme takes care of it. Let me know if I need to open this back up