[gentoo-user] Globally Disable Prompt Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time

[R0b0t1]

Hello,

This has come up on this list a few times in slightly more restricted
forms. Today, I feel the need to ask about how to Globally Disable
Prompt Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time.

The issue is that over some transports, e.g. a debug serial link, with
an actual serial port, the receiving program may not be able to
interpret escape codes. Typically this is an issue when on Windows,
though PuTTY exists. On Gentoo screen will work nicely, but is a bit
heavy.

Is the only way to find every program that generates escape sequences
and disable it? What about kernel messages during boot?

Cheers,
     R0b0t1