How do I get Emacs shell mode to either render (or ignore) my colors instead of printing ASCII codes?

Question

The symptom of the problem looks like \"[0m[27m[24m[J[34;1\" which on a terminal translates into the color blue.

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Answer 1

I've got the following in my .emacs

(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)