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Please don't suggest to use the characters "·$", instead suggest the proper keyboard shortcuts to alter the formatting and the use of the /nick2 command.
Anyways, see
'CookieRevised's reply to 'What is the difference between /nick and /nick2 ?' which explains how you can color the "says:" text in a proper way.
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EDIT: all the above has of course nothing todo with skinning as vaccination pointed out. In the context of skinning, you need to do completely other things.