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One case I can think of is parsing output without the intermittent hidden unicode codes to change the color. Changing terminal settings won’t change that.

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Programs should disable terminal color codes when the output is not a terminal. Arguably, this is already an established best practice.

If checking isatty() wasn't an established practice, pipes would be pretty useless.

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