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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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.
Indeed... bas things happen when you tell people to use dodgy characters. This is translated from #msgplus.nl:
quote:
<ITSME> ey
<ITSME> does anybody know which stripe i need for those colors just like - but a little smaller 
<ITSME> well???
<ITSME> can somebody give it to me please
<ITSME> ?
<ITSME> MEnthis
<ITSME> Menthix please give me that stripe
<ITSME> #msgplus

Don't tell people to use such characters... tell the the proper keyboard shortcuts.