Colours do not work on windows 10 cmd console

[jbx1]

Running the program from a Windows 10 console would output strange characters, which presumably correspond to the ANSI colours. The output displays things like �[4m and �[33m and �[24m etc.

It seems that windows 10 does not handle these well, and there were some breaking changes done in a recent update.

microsoft/WSL#1173

There was also some discussion related to this here:
scala/scala#5663

The simplest option could be to first add an option to disable coloured output.

If there is a way to detect whether the terminal supports colour one could use it to turn coloured output on, but I suspect it is not that trivial. (I would still leave the option to turn it off explicitly anyway for those who do not want colours.)