Bold doesn't work in Creator's Update Bash

[agocke]

Repro: echo -e "text \033[1mbold\033[0m text"

This prints the following for me:

bold should actually be bold, not just another color in the color palette. It also shouldn't change the foreground color.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]

[sunjoong]

@agocke - lt looks not bold but bright. Effect of code 1 is "Bold or increased intensity -- ANSI escape code".

[zadjii-msft]

@agocke that's exactly right. We don't support proper bold at the moment, but the intensity works just fine for now. Like with all feature requests, it's already on the backlog :)

[agocke]

@zadjii-msft How do you decide what "intensity" means in this context? It seems to pick a different color from the palette, i.e. I can actually change the color that is printed by bold and it can be completely different from the normal color.

This is important because if I change the color scheme for my 8 foreground colors, what happens to my bold colors? It seems like sometimes nothing may happen, which means the bold colors show up as unreadable in my new color scheme.

[fpqc]

@agocke This is pretty standard for terminal emulators. The 'bright' colors are the second row of 8 colors in programs that have a sane color picking interface =p.

[agocke]

Yeah, I think I screwed up the transcription from my .Xresources. Still, bold would be useful.

[dgilmour77]

This creates a bit of a trap for unwary users. I like black text on dark grey background, and when I set it, it looked great. Until I brought up a man page and it looked garbled and broken because I was unlucky that the bold color automatically chosen was the same as my background color - dark grey. At a minimum, the logic for choosing a bold color should be based not just on the foreground color but the foreground/background combination. Yeah, good luck with that ;-)

[bitcrazed]

This issue was moved to microsoft/terminal#109