Missing support for bold extended colours in console

[9Rune5]

[Version 10.0.17692.1004]

In PowerShell:
$esc = [char]0x1b
"${esc}[38;5;208mplain${esc}[0m ${esc}[38;5;208;1mbold${esc}[0m"

"bold" is printed in plain white.

Expected result is bold in orange letters.

(Found this when comparing colours with bash extension hilightning using the https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS colour scheme)

[DHowett-MSFT]

1. This set of LS_COLORS is amazing. It looks like it mostly works with this PowerShell DirColors module, as well.
2. On 17723, I'm seeing bold match plain in color:

While the color's there, the bolding definitely isn't.

[zadjii-msft]

So this comes down to two parts:

1. RGB color followed by \x1b[1m removes the color and instead prints in white (or some other bright color)
2. The console doesn't support bold text

I believe 1 is already fixed in Insiders (if not it's on it's way out) - I believe there's another issue that brought that to my attention, but I can't recall off the top of my head.

2 is being tracked by #109

[9Rune5]

I finally managed to upgrade to build 17728 (had to nuke a user profile), and your analysis is correct.

@DHowett-MSFT Thanks for DirColors! I have been using it for a couple of months now. I intend to submit a PR to trapd00r to include more support for MS-centric file extensions (.ps1 is an obvious one...).

[jwise]

I've run into a variant of this on build 17134. I'm using Alacritty as a terminal emulator (and it is amazingly fast!), which I think uses WinPTY. The variant of this that I've noted is that it is occasionally possible to get genuinely bold text (if there are no other modifiers -- i.e., echo -e '\033[1m;Bold!'), but if I add both bold and color together (i.e., echo -e '\033[1;32m;Colors!'), then I may get a bright color, but no bold text. I've noted this also in other terminal emulators on the system. This seems like a mysterious result to me, but it's not the same as how Alacritty behaves on Linux, anyway. Is the Windows console layer doing some filtering that I do not understand?

@zadjii-msft, is this also something that you're tracking as "issue 1" in your comment above? Or should I be going spelunking in Alacritty source?

Thanks!