Broken ANSI color sequences on Windows

[tknerr]

Not sure if this bug fits here. I'm using RubyInstaller Ruby 2.0.0-p451 (x64) with DevKit 4.7.2 (x64) on Windows7.

After installing the rdoc-data gem and installing the ri data for core + stdlib, i.e.

gem install rdoc-data
rdoc-data --install

...I noticed that the ansi formatter is now turned on by default. Not sure how that happened, but thankfully to @ssmythe I found this workaround which suggests set RI=--format bs to restore the old behaviour.

In fact the ansi coloring would be nice, but it doesn't work properly with my setup, i.e. looks like this:

Any ideas what could be the cause or how to fix this?

/cc @luislavena @ssmythe

[tknerr]

Seems to be an rdoc/rdoc-data issue instead. I just verified that ri String colored output works properly until the rdoc-data gem is installed.

Once rdoc-data is installed and ri data is installed the colors are broken as shown above.

Uninstalling the gem did NOT fix the colored output again.

[xiconet]

I can't believe this bug is just sitting here more than two years later.

[drbrain]

I can't believe you didn't send a pull request to fix it.

[xiconet]

Did you?

[drbrain]

1. I'm not paid to
2. I don't use Windows so the effort is far too high for the return on investment
3. Your entitlement to my free labor is not encouraging me to even try