| Terminal Emulator |
Bright foreground via the BOLD attribute |
Bright foreground via AIXTerm sequences |
Bright background via the standard sequence | Bright background via AIXTerm sequences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xterm (/usr/X11/bin/xterm, 251, Mac OS X) |
Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold (regardless of the +bdc/-bdc command line switch) |
Yes | No (BLINK just blinks the text) |
Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm (/usr/bin/xterm, 278, Linux) | Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold (regardless of the +bdc/-bdc command line switch) |
Yes | No (BLINK just blinks the text) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm (/opt/sfw/bin/xterm, XFree86 4.0.1c(146), Solaris 8) | Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold (regardless of the +bdc/-bdc command line switch) |
Yes |
No (BLINK makes the text bold, w/o changing its colour (unlike BOLD)) |
Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm (/usr/openwin/bin/xterm, SUNWxwopt 6.4.1.3800, Solaris 8) |
No (BOLD makes the text bold, no colour support at all) | No (colour support is missing) | No (BLINK makes the text bold, no colour support at all) |
No (colour support is missing) |
| xterm (/usr/bin/xterm, 287, CYGWIN) | Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold (regardless of the +bdc/-bdc command line switch) |
Yes |
No (BLINK just blinks the text) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm family (mintty.exe, 1.1.2, CYGWIN) |
No (only if the "Show bold as colour" flag (Options -> Text) is set) |
Yes |
No (BLINK just blinks the text) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm family (PuTTY, 0.61, Windows) |
No (only works if the "Bolded text is a different colour" flag (Window -> Colours) is set) |
Yes |
Yes (BLINK and BLINK_RAPID make the background bright) |
Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm family (Terminal.app, Mac OS X) | No (only works if the "Use bright colors for bold text" flag (Settings -> Text) is set) | Yes | No (BLINK just blinks the text) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm family (iTerm, 0.10 Mac OS X) | No (only works if the "Bold" flag (View -> Show Session Info... -> Session -> Colors) is cleared) | Yes | No (BLINK just blinks the text) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm family (iTerm2, 1.0.0.20120203, Mac OS X) | No (only works if the "Draw bold text in bright colors" flag (Preferences -> Profiles ->Text -> Text Rendering) is set) | Yes | No (BLINK just blinks the text) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| xterm family (Cathode, Mac OS X) | No, but who cares? | No (BLINK just blinks the text) | No, but who cares? |
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| xterm family (FreeDSD console) |
Yes (BOLD) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | No (BLINK is ignored) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| cygwin (cmd.exe, Windows) |
Yes (BOLD) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | Yes (BLINK makes the background bright) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| vt52/vt100/ansi/vtnt (cmd.exe, Windows) |
Yes (BOLD) |
No (AIXTerm control sequences negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | No (BLINK is ignored) |
No (AIXTerm control sequences negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| vt320 (Caché Terminal, Windows) |
No (BOLD just makes the text bold) |
No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | No (BLINK blinks the text, inversing both foreground and background) |
No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| rxvt-cygwin/rxvt-cygwin-native (rxvt, CYGWIN) |
Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold | Yes |
Yes (BLINK makes the background bright) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| rxvt-unicode-256color (rxvt, CYGWIN) |
Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold | Yes |
Yes (BLINK and BLINK_RAPID make the background bright) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| kterm (rxvt, Solaris 8) |
Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold |
No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | Yes (BLINK makes the background bright) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| rxvt (rxvt/rxvt-xpm/rxvt-xterm, Linux) |
Yes (BOLD) |
No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | Yes (BLINK makes the background bright) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| rxvt-unicode-256color (rxvt-unicode, urxvt, Linux) |
Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold | Yes | Yes (BLINK and BLINK_RAPID make the background bright) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| rxvt (mrxvt/mrxvt-full, Linux) |
Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold | Yes |
No (BLINK makes the background render in different colour, but this colour is always the same) |
Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| rxvt (rxvt, Mac OS X) |
Yes (BOLD), but also makes the text bold | Yes |
Yes (BLINK makes the background bright) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| rxvt (mrxvt, Mac OS X) |
No (BOLD just makes the text bold) | Yes |
No (BLINK makes the text inverse, w/o changing its colour (like INVERSE)) | Yes (BOLD is still required to make foreground bright) |
| dtterm ([1], Solaris 8) |
No (BOLD just makes the text bold) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | No (BLINK makes the text inverse, w/o changing its colour (like INVERSE)) |
No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| sun-cmd (shelltool, Solaris 8) |
No (colour and attribute support is missing entirely) |
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| sun-color (Solaris 8 console) |
Yes (BOLD) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | No (BLINK is ignored) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| linux (Linux console) |
Yes (BOLD) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | Yes (BLINK makes the background bright) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| screen.linux (Linux console) | Yes (BOLD) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | Yes (BLINK makes the background bright) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |
| screen |
Yes, if the underlying implementation supports it |
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| vt52/vt100/ansi (telnet.exe, Windows 9x) |
No (colour and attribute support is missing entirely) | |||
| ansi (HyperTerminal ([1], [2], [3]), Windows 95 to 2003) |
Yes (BOLD) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) | No (BLINK just blinks the text) | No (still, AIXTerm control sequences do not negate the effect of ANSI text attributes) |