Why does the terminal show strange chars for ESP32

[maxgerhardt]

These are color codes, which can be made to show up properly by using monitor_raw = yes in the platformio.ini, see

Some bizare characters prints on serial monitor with ESP-IDF hello world example

You can find additional info by the link1 and link2 My variety with platformio.ini file: [env:core2foraws] platform = espressif32@3.2.1 framework = espidf board = m5stack-core2 monitor_speed = 115200 monitor_raw = yes [Screenshot 2023-07-14 at 13.36.07]