Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.4) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux ANSI escape sequences are broken in Konsole 1.6.4 (KDE 3.5.4) $ echo -e "\e[1;38mBold \e[0;38mNormal" outputs "Bold Normal" where "Bold" is displayed bold. In Konsole 1.6.4 the complete output is red and not bold at all. It worked correctly in KDE 3.5.3 and earlier releases.
Confirmed.
That escape sequence appears to be invalid, which is why it produces different results in Xterm, Konsole and Gnome-terminal (where the text is black but underlined). The "38" character attribute is used for 256 colour support, and has a special syntax: echo -e "\e[1;38;5;0mBold \e[0;30mNormal" Where the "0" specifies the colour (from a palette of 256) to use- http://frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/. Konsole could handle invalid sequences better though. Bold text is however broken in KDE 3.5.4. That is fixed in both KDE 3.5.5 and KDE 4.
As mentioned earlier, the escape sequence in the bug report is invalid. Produces the expected results in KDE 4 with a valid escape sequence.