Does Windows console supports ANSI?

Question

Does the Windows console support ANSI control characters?

Answer 1

It doesn't support many ANSI control characters by default (which is also mentioned in the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code), but there are ways to make that possible.

Look into the answers to this question: How to load ANSI escape codes or get coloured file listing in WinXP cmd shell? You might happen upon something useful.