Re: Problems with ANSI colors in shell mode in Emacs 21.2.95.

[Francesco Potorti`]

>the sense that it prints extra control characters.  The gnome-terminal
>(1.2.4) work fine, however.  Apparently, it looks for the ^A and ^B
>characters and strips them.

Apparently this is what the Linux console does too.  In fact, I can see
this on a Linux console:

$ echo -e "##\001\040##"
## ##

This is true for all non printable characters that I tried.