Console colors are not available [≥1.20.1 - 2020]

[shuiqing2046]

Spark link

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Expected behavior

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Observed/Actual behavior

≥ purpur-1.20.1-2020 console colors are not available

1.20.1-2019

1.20.1-2020 ~2022

Steps/models to reproduce

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Purpur version

Console color available version: ≤1.20.1-2019

Console color unavailable version: ≥1.20.1-2020

Agreements

• I am running the latest version of Purpur available from https://purpurmc.org/downloads.
• I have searched for and ensured there isn't already an open issue regarding this.
• I ticked all the boxes without actually reading them
• My version of Minecraft is supported by Purpur.

Other

No response

[granny]

1. • I ticked all the boxes without actually reading them

2. spark link is required for a reason
3. this is an upstream issue, but i've pushed a hotfix for purpur in the mean time while we wait for a proper fix from upstream 41b121b

[Huge-mistake]

KyoriPowered/ansi#29
PaperMC/Paper#9546
Shouldn't this be a mistake, it's intentional?

[BillyGalbreath]

I agree, it is a mistake for Paper to be making those kind of assumptions based on a flimsy environmental variable that has proven for over 30 years to be unreliable for determining color support. At least they could have assumed the opposite where most terminals in 2023 can and do support the full range of 24bit colors, not 16 or none.

For those that want their true 24bit colors back and happen to be using one of terminal softwares that do not set the environmental variable the way paper team is assuming it should be, you can simply add the net.kyori.ansi.colorLevel system property flag to your startup script. For example:

java -Dnet.kyori.ansi.colorLevel=truecolor -jar purpur.jar nogui

truecolor will get you the full 24 bit colors. If you're in the 1% of users with a terminal that doesn't support 24bit colors there are also indexed256 and indexed16 values to that flag to get you 256 and 16 colors, respectfully, rather than being forced into a none value with the recent paper/kyori changes.