I cannot print color escape codes to the terminal

Question

When I run this script:

fn main() {
    // \\033[0;31m <- Red
    // \\033[0m <- No Color
    println!(\"\\033[0;31mSO\\033[0m\")
}

I

Answer 1

Rust 1.3.0 does not seem to support octal escape strings such as \033. Instead, you can use hexadecimal escape strings like \x1b.

fn main(){
  println!("\x1b[0;31mSO\x1b[0m")
}