In C I can do: // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842424/list-of-ansi-color-escape-sequences
printf("\033[31;1;4mHello\033[0m"); and get red text in the terminal (MacOS). When I do the same thing with writeln and FPC it prints the literal characters with no colors. Why doesn’t this work the same in FPC I wonder? Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal