ANSI Escape colors for Format-Table issue

[AhsenBaig]

Issue Description

PowerShell output in VS Code is not rendering ANSI Escape colors properly for Format-Table

Issue

From StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/q/62962513/601197

For some reason the ANSI Escape colors in use with Format-Table loses the column alignment. Any suggestions to correct this behavior? The line that is causing this issue is

"$e[${color}m$($dbValue)${e}[0m"

Yet, if we don't use ANSI Escape the function works fine.

Expected results (colors removed)

id    author         title                genre    price  publish_date
--    ------         -----                -----    -----  ------------
Bk001 LName, FName   XML Powershell Guide Computer 104.95 2020-10-01
Bk002 LName2, FName2 Python Guide         Computer 104.95 2020-12-16

Current results (colors removed)

id    author         title                         genre             price  publish_date
--    ------         -----                         -----             -----  ------------
Bk001 LName, FName   XML Powershell Guide Computer 104.95 2020-10-01  
Bk002 LName2, FName2 Python Guide         Computer 104.95 2020-12-16

Sample code

$myBooks = [xml] @"
<catalog>
   <book id="Bk001">
      <author>LName, FName</author>
      <title>XML Powershell Guide</title>
      <genre>Computer</genre>
      <price>104.95</price>
      <publish_date>2020-10-01</publish_date>
   </book>
   <book id="Bk002">
      <author>LName2, FName2</author>
      <title>Python Guide</title>
      <genre>Computer</genre>
      <price>104.95</price>
      <publish_date>2020-12-16</publish_date>      
   </book>
</catalog>
"@

# Colors
# Red	31
# Green	32
$ColorRed = '31'
$ColorGreen = '32'

function ColorValue {
    param (		
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $False)][string]$dbValue,
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $False)][string]$color
    )
    $e = [char]27

    if ($color -eq [string]::Empty) {
        $color = $ColorGreen
    }

    if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($dbValue)) {
        $dbValue = 'NULL'
        $color = $ColorRed
    }
    "$e[${color}m$($dbValue)${e}[0m"
}

# title, genre, price, publish_date
$myBooks.catalog.book | Format-Table -AutoSize -Wrap -Property id, author, 
@{name = 'title'; expression = { (ColorValue $_.title)}}, 
@{name='genre';expression={ColorValue $_.genre $ColorRed}} , price, publish_date

Environment Information

Visual Studio Code

Name	Version
Operating System	Windows_NT x64 10.0.19041
VSCode	1.47.2
PowerShell Extension Version	2020.6.0

PowerShell Information

Name	Value
PSVersion	5.1.19041.1
PSEdition	Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions	1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 5.1.19041.1
BuildVersion	10.0.19041.1
CLRVersion	4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion	3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion	2.3
SerializationVersion	1.1.0.1

Visual Studio Code Extensions

Visual Studio Code Extensions(Click to Expand)

Extension	Author	Version
better-comments	aaron-bond	2.1.0
code-spell-checker	streetsidesoftware	1.9.0
cpptools	ms-vscode	0.29.0
csharp	ms-dotnettools	1.22.1
debugger-for-chrome	msjsdiag	4.12.9
debugger-for-edge	msjsdiag	1.0.15
docs-yaml	docsmsft	0.2.5
ecdc	mitchdenny	1.3.0
gc-excelviewer	GrapeCity	3.0.38
gitlens	eamodio	10.2.2
mssql	ms-mssql	1.9.0
powershell	ms-vscode	2020.6.0
python	ms-python	2020.7.94776
remote-containers	ms-vscode-remote	0.128.0
remote-ssh	ms-vscode-remote	0.51.0
remote-ssh-edit	ms-vscode-remote	0.51.0
remote-wsl	ms-vscode-remote	0.44.4
team	ms-vsts	1.161.0
todo-tree	Gruntfuggly	0.0.178
vscode-docker	ms-azuretools	1.3.1
vscode-firefox-debug	firefox-devtools	2.9.0
vscode-icons	vscode-icons-team	10.2.0
vscode-java-debug	vscjava	0.27.0
vscode-markdownlint	DavidAnson	0.36.1
vscode-remote-extensionpack	ms-vscode-remote	0.20.0
vscode-yaml	redhat	0.9.1
vscodeintellicode	VisualStudioExptTeam	1.2.9
xml	DotJoshJohnson	2.5.1

[corbob]

Is this a duplicate of #2755?

[AhsenBaig]

Is this a duplicate of #2755?

Yeah vt100 wasn't something I searched for... When looking for duplicates.

[AhsenBaig]

Duplicate of #2755