In Git Bash on Windows 7, Colors display as code when running Cucumber or rspec

Question

In Git Bash on Windows 7, I occasionally have something happen that causes the color coding to fail when running cucumber scenarios or rspec specs.

Occasionally, it

Answer 1

Richard's suggestions, even in cmd.exe (not PowerShell), worked for me.

I'm running: Windows 7 (64-bit) and Git-Bash: GNU bash, version 3.1.23(6)-release (i686-pc-msys)

I had to change the PAGER location to match my system.

export PAGER='"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\less.exe"'