Colored text output in PowerShell console using ANSI / VT100 codes

Question

I wrote a program which prints a string, which contains ANSI escape sequences to make the text colored. But it doesn\'t work as expected in the default Windows 10 console, a

Answer 1

Thanks to user mklement0 for making me aware that VT support is not enabled automatically. This made me look in the right direction and I found this helpful post.

So to answer my question: Add or set the registry key

HKCU:\Console  -  [DWORD] VirtualTerminalLevel = 1

Restart the console and it works.