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[jira] [Commented] (LOG4J2-413) PatternLayout option to not output ANSI escape codes if no Console is available

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-413?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13862492#comment-13862492 ] 

Ralph Goers commented on LOG4J2-413:
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I don't see the issue with the options but I am having a hard time reviewing the patch because there is a bunch of reformatting going on where no real changes were made. It would help if you didn't combine reformatting with logic changes.

> PatternLayout option to not output ANSI escape codes if no Console is available
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-413
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-413
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Layouts
>    Affects Versions: 2.0-beta9
>         Environment: Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 08:51:28-0500)
> Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.0.5\bin\..
> Java version: 1.7.0_25, vendor: Oracle Corporation
> Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25\jre
> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
> OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"
>            Reporter: Gary Gregory
>         Attachments: LOG4J2-413.diff
>
>
> In some environments, like the Eclipse IDE, logging to the Java Console is redirected to the GUI. In this context, ANSI escape codes mean nothing and show up as "garbage" on the screen. 
> This condition can be detected, if java.lang.System.console() returns null, like it does in Eclipse, then we should optionally not output ANSI codes.
> It would be best to provide this as an option such that ANSI codes could still be written to a file for later viewing on the console.



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