Does Visual D support colorization output?

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On Friday, 1 September 2017 at 08:19:43 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
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> On 01.09.2017 05:14, EntangledQuanta wrote:
>> I do not get any colorized output from the new dmd. I'm 
>> curious if it is on my end or if visual D/visual studio needs 
>> to support this?
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> Visual D needs to redirect the compiler output to display it in 
> the output window, and dmd disables colorization output in that 
> case (you would end up with control codes when redirecting into 
> a text file otherwise). So I don't think it's possible ATM (I'm 
> unsure if VS supports this in the output window to begin with).
>

Yes, dmd disables coloring when not attached to an interactive 
terminal, however there shouldn't be any control codes on 
Windows, as dmd uses the Win32 Conosole API: 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/v2.076.0-rc1/src/ddmd/console.d#L122 so yes, there's no way to get colored error messages outside of the console on Windows.