Jimbodude, such posts have been made several times already though..
Anyways, what you call IRC style formatting, is not IRC style formatting at all. In fact those codes are internal codes and should not be used by the normal user directly.
IRC style means using shortcuts, just like in mIRC, hence the name "IRC Style"...
And even if you put in the ascii codes directly, those (the dot and $ stuff) are not the ascii codes which are put in when you use the IRC style shortcuts.
And what about the (!FC) style and all in Plus3?
If you make such posts, do it properly please
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