Using the npmlog within IDEs like Eclipse or other tools that does not support colors, the outcome show instead of colors, the special characters equivalents.
This is an example using the node-gyp package that uses npmlog for logging.

If someone set a environment variable could this prevent the colors from being displayed?
Node.js already has a environment variable for disabling colors but npmlog does not seems to respect it.
That is NODE_DISABLE_COLORS
Could use the same environment variable or define a new one, doesn't matter.