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

The following should work in your .bash_profile or .bashrc

case $TERM in
xterm-color)
export PS1='\[\e]0;\W\007\]\[\e[34;1m\]\W\[\e[0m\]\$ '
;;
*)
export PS1='\W\$ '
;;
esac