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Select-String doesn't render VT (ANSI) escape sequences in its for-display output with input from external programs on Windows

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Steps to reproduce

This is a regression from 7.2.6 and only happens:

on Windows (not on macOS; haven’t tried on Linux)
in regular console windows (`conhost.exe), not in Windows Termional
with input from external programs

cmd /c echo foo | sls f

Expected behavior

foo should print with f highlighted, to indicate what part of the line matched.

Actual behavior

←[7mf←[0moo

That is, the VT escape sequences are mistakenly rendered as verbatim characters.

Error details

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Environment data

PowerShell Core 7.3.0-preview.8 on Windows 10 21H2, Windows 11 22H2

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Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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SeeminglySciencecommented, Oct 17, 2022

I would guess it’s related to #16612 but I’ve looked it over and I can’t easily see how. We should be re-enabling VT more often rather than less, so something is a little off for sure. /cc @daxian-dbw

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msftbot[bot]commented, Oct 18, 2022

This issue has been marked as external and has not had any activity for 1 day. It has been be closed for housekeeping purposes.

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