Php artisan displaying strange characters on windows command prompt

Question

Please can anyone help me with this error I\'m getting on command prompt for windows 10. Whenever I try to utilize the php artisan feature in Laravel 5.2 I get this error. I

Answer 1

That's not an error. Those are color codes, which the Windows terminal apparently doesn't support.

^{There's an uncited note on the Wikipedia article that Windows 10 TH2 patch version does. YMMV.}

Here's what they look like in a terminal that supports them: