Boot.log question/fix ?

[Phil Meyer]

On 09/18/2009 08:00 AM, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I was looking at my boot.log this morning and found confusing symbols
> that distract from its clarity.
>
> E.g.
> ...
> emounting root filesystem in read-write mode:  [
> OK  ]
> Mounting local filesystems:  [  OK  ]
> Enabling local filesystem quotas:  [  OK  ]
> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:  [  OK  ]
> Entering non-interactive startup
> Applying Intel CPU microcode update: [  OK  ]
> ...
>
> I gather, [ has something to do with Tab [ and ]
> represents ]\n.  The problem probably has something to do with locale
> and/or basic fonts installed.
>
> Does anybody know how I should configure whatever to get the boot.log to
> print properly ?
>
> None of my other logs have this problem.
>
>    

I believe those are the ascii codes to change the colors.  more or cat 
the file instead of editing it. :)