Echo output is different from expected formatted output

Question

I\'m using the following formatting for echo

It should output text that is both bold and underlined, but instead of making it bold it\'s giving a \'brighter\' variant o

Answer 1

It seems you are running bash through the old cygwin.bat, so you are using the Windows Console as terminal, and not through the default Mintty that is a more advanced Terminal.

By default Cygwin setup install the "Cygwin Terminal" entry in the windows menu

The content of the menu entry is like

C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -

with path like

C:\cygwin64\bin

These items can be a also recreated at the last step of cygwin setup running. There are two box entries :

□ Create icon on Desktop
□ Add icon to Start Menu

If you enable them, both will be recreated