On my console, the AA_DIM attribute was giving the same output as AA_NORMAL for the ANSI format.
so i changed aasave.c: aa_ansi_format->begin...
from:
{"",
"\33[8m",
"\33[1m",
"\33[1m",
"\33[7m"
}
to:
{"",
"\33[2m",
"\33[1m",
"\33[1m",
"\33[7m"
}