Issue
I was looking into an Ubuntu crash on EC2, so I pulled the system log. What are these weird characters?
I looked the circled one up on rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://unicodelookup.com/#%1B/1 and got this: \x{1B}
They are even more obnoxious on VS Code... VS Code says the yellow one is U+2026
Why are these rendering like this?
Solution
U+001B is the ESC control code, and it is being used in this case to inject ANSI control sequences into a terminal that supports them. <ESC>[0;32m sets text to green (IIRC) and <ESC>[0m returns text to the default color. Unfortunately they don't redirect to a file well. Blame the logger. Different IDEs display control codes differently as you've found.
Read more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
U+2026 is the Unicode character HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS (…) and it looks like it was used to truncate a portion of the log.
A simple example in Python with the colorama module that enables ANSI escape codes. Note that in the Windows terminal ESC shows as yet another "weird symbol":
Answered By - Mark Tolonen Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)