'normal' shell with curses

[Michael Goerz]

Miki wrote, on 03/03/2008 11:14 PM:
> Hello Michael,
> 
>> I'm trying to print out text in color. As far as I know, curses is the
>> only way to do that (or not?).
> On unix, every XTerm compatible terminal will be able to display color
> using escape sequence.
> (Like the one you see in the output of 'grep --color')
> 
> See the shameless plug in http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/2008/03/ansiprint.html
> 
The escape sequence approach is definitely interesting and I'd prefer it 
to curses if I can make it work. However, I ultimately would like to 
support other terminals than xterm (especially Windows), that I assume 
have different ANSI codes. So, two questions:
What are the most common terminals that differ in the ANSI codes they 
use, and how can I detect which of those terminals the program is 
running on?
Where can I find out what codes those terminals use for color?

Michael.