Using ansi-wl-pprint with haskeline

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How does one use ansi-wl-pprint with haskeline, without losing Windows support?

ansi-wl-pprint has two ways to output a SimpleDoc:

(\doc -> displayS doc "") :: SimpleDoc -> String
displayIO stdout :: SimpleDoc -> IO ()

However, the documentation warns that displayS does not work on Windows (cmd.exe doesn't implement ANSI escape sequences?).

displayIO doesn't use haskeline's print functions, however:

outputStr :: MonadIO m => String -> InputT m ()
outputStrLn :: MonadIO m => String -> InputT m ()
getExternalPrint :: MonadException m => InputT m (String -> IO ())

The closest thing to a solution I can see right now is:

outputPretty :: (MonadException m, MonadIO m, Pretty p) => p -> InputT m ()
outputPretty p = getExternalPrint >>= doPrint 
  where doc = renderPretty 0.4 80 $ pretty p
        doPrint print = liftIO . print $ displayS doc ""

However, if displayS doesn't work on Windows, I'd prefer not to use it.

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