How to make win32 console recognize ANSI/VT100 escape sequences?

Question

I\'m building a lightweight version of the ncurses library. So far, it works pretty well with VT100-compatible terminals, but win32 console fails to recognise the \\03

Answer 1

I personally like clink. It not only processes ANSI codes, it also adds many other features so Windows Console behaves like bash (history, reverse history search, keyboard shortcuts, etc.):

• The same line editing as Bash (from GNU's Readline library).
• History persistence between sessions.
• Context sensitive completion;
  • Executables (and aliases).
  • Directory commands.
  • Environment variables
  • Thirdparty tools; Git, Mercurial, SVN, Go, and P4.
• New keyboard shortcuts;
  • Paste from clipboard (Ctrl-V).
  • Incremental history search (Ctrl-R/Ctrl-S).
  • Powerful completion (TAB).
  • Undo (Ctrl-Z).
  • Automatic "cd .." (Ctrl-PgUp).
  • Environment variable expansion (Ctrl-Alt-E).
  • (press Alt-H for many more...)
• Scriptable completion with Lua.
• Coloured and scriptable prompt.
• Auto-answering of the "Terminate batch job?" prompt.