Wrote windowsSaneify to make windows interpret ansi color codes.

include/mcolor.h

@@ -201,4 +201,8 @@ namespace mcolor
     std::string toEscapeCode(rgbColor c, bool bg=false);
 
     std::string toEscapeCode(ansiColors::Colors c);
+
+#ifdef WIN32
+    void windowsSaneify();
+#endif
 }

main.cpp

@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 
 int main()
 {
+#ifdef WIN32
+    mcolor::windowsSaneify();
+#endif
+
     std::cout << "Hello, World!" << std::endl;
 
     //Color c;

src/mcolor.cpp

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 #include <format>
 #include <iostream>
 
+#ifdef WIN32
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
+
 namespace mcolor
 {
     std::string toEscapeCode(rgbColor c, bool bg)
@@ -21,4 +25,26 @@ namespace mcolor
         // Type casting is annoying just saying, but I want to be special about this for some reason
         return std::format("\033[{}m", static_cast<typename std::underlying_type<ansiColors::Colors>::type>(c));
     }
+
+#ifdef WIN32
+    /*
+     * Beat Windows into submission and make it interpret ansi codes.
+     * Fuck you Microsoft we're doing this the right way.
+     * This only works on Windows 10 version 1511 and newer.
+     *
+     * This function is meant to be a helper that's used in ifdef macros to allow
+     * us to print ansi color codes to the terminal. It's always gonna have to tag
+     * along with any code that is printing the escape codes to a terminal.
+     */
+    void windowsSaneify() {
+            HANDLE handleOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
+            DWORD consoleMode;
+            GetConsoleMode( handleOut, &consoleMode);
+            consoleMode |= ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING;
+            consoleMode |= DISABLE_NEWLINE_AUTO_RETURN;
+            SetConsoleMode( handleOut , consoleMode );
+            SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
+    }
+#endif
+
 }