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Refs #32694 -- Clarified when colorama requirement is needed in Windows how-to.

Carlton Gibson 3 years ago
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@@ -96,12 +96,13 @@ Colored terminal output
 
 .. versionadded:: 3.2
 
-A quality-of-life feature is to output colored (rather than monochrome) output
-on the terminal. This should work both on CMD and PowerShell. If for some
-reason this needs to be disabled, set the environmental variable
+A quality-of-life feature adds colored (rather than monochrome) output to the
+terminal. In modern terminals this should work for both CMD and PowerShell. If
+for some reason this needs to be disabled, set the environmental variable
 :envvar:`DJANGO_COLORS` to ``nocolor``.
 
-To enable this, colorama_ must be installed::
+On older Windows versions, or legacy terminals, colorama_ must be installed to
+enable syntax coloring::
 
     ...\> py -m pip install colorama