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Escape sequences aren't displayed properly on Windows #702

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See the screenshot:
dzil

An obvious fix would be something like this:

diff --git a/dist.ini b/dist.ini
index aede7ddf..336c5a88 100644
--- a/dist.ini
+++ b/dist.ini
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ DateTime = 0.44 ; CLDR fixes, used by AutoVersion and NextRelease

 [OSPrereqs / MSWin32]
 DateTime::TimeZone = 1.92
+Win32::Console::ANSI = 0

 [RemovePrereqs]
 remove = Config ; why isn't this indexed?? -- rjbs, 2011-02-11
diff --git a/lib/Dist/Zilla/Chrome/Term.pm b/lib/Dist/Zilla/Chrome/Term.pm
index d2661f11..9613572f 100644
--- a/lib/Dist/Zilla/Chrome/Term.pm
+++ b/lib/Dist/Zilla/Chrome/Term.pm
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ sub _build_logger {

     $stdout->add_callback(sub {
       require Term::ANSIColor;
+      require Win32::Console::ANSI if $^O eq 'MSWin32';
       my $message = {@_}->{message};
       return $message unless $message =~ s/\A\[([^\]]+)] //;

However, because dzil expects a 256-color terminal and Win32::Console::ANSI emulates a 16-color terminal, it doesn't look as intended:
dzil2

Maybe colouring should be completely disabled under Windows?

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