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O.P. Normal texts at the very beginning of a nickname, prevents all formatting on infobar
I searched the forum, but I couldn't find any report about this.

If my contact added an emoticon at the beginning of his display name and then formatted his name, then the formattings on his name can't be seen at info bars at conversation windows. If the code is;
code:
:) [c=4]ahmetgns[/c]
then this is bad. The result is: :) ahmetgns.  If the code is;
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[c=4]:) ahmetgns[/c]
then this is OK. The result is: :) ahmetgns. I attached a screenshot about this. It will help you understand easily. (I edit one of my contacts name in order to add the emoticon)

Note: There is no difference if the formatting is BBCode or IRC style.

Edit: Changed title.

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This post was edited on 09-18-2007 at 08:34 AM by ahmetgns.
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RE: An emoticon at the very beginning of a nickname, prevents all formatting on infob
both ways work fine for me

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messenger 8.1.0178

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RE: An emoticon at the very beginning of a nickname, prevents all formatting on infobar
It might be because of the length that it is chopping of the end formatting tag... this means it won't be shown in colour... if you use the old formatting codes (·$) then it should still work
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O.P. RE: An emoticon at the very beginning of a nickname, prevents all formatting on infobar
Thanks mates for your testings.
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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
if you use the old formatting codes (·$) then it should still work
Pay attention to the  first screenshot, there is old code at the end of the name because all text after the name is pink. So it is also affected from the emoticon at the second screenshot.

I noticed that, formatting is gone only when contacts are offline, I don't know why but maybe the link "Send email to this contact instead" at the end causes it. You can try it with one of your offline contacts.

Actually, it is not that much important, eh :)?
09-14-2007 09:32 AM
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RE: An emoticon at the very beginning of a nickname, prevents all formatting on infobar
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Originally posted by ahmetgns
Pay attention to the  first screenshot, there is old code at the end of the name because all text after the name is pink. So it is also affected from the emoticon at the second screenshot.

So just the text is one colour it means it's the old format tags?

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O.P. RE: An emoticon at the very beginning of a nickname, prevents all formatting on infobar
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So just the text is one colour it means it's the old format tags?
Yes, sure thing.

And I must correct myself here. The emoticon has nothing to do with this bug. The reason of this bug is quite simple. If contact name starts without a formatting and then a formatting exist, then the infobar can't show the colors etc. if there is a link after the info sentence. For example I renamed one of my contacts like
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ahmet [c=4]hello[/c]
then deleted him while chatting. The information bar shows his name only black like "ahmet hello" since there is the link Add this contact to your contact list. after the info sentence, so to summarize the info bar showed my contact as below.

ahmet hello is not in your contact list. Add this contact to your contact list.

However it should have showed it like:

ahmet hello is not in your contact list. Add this contact to your contact list.

Edit: Just realized that, background coloring and stroke out format tags aren't affected from this bug.

This post was edited on 09-14-2007 at 03:41 PM by ahmetgns.
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RE: Normal texts at the very beginning of a nickname, prevents all formatting on infobar
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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff

So just the text is one colour it means it's the old format tags?

Yes, sure thing.

Gee, I thought you could have one colour using the new formatting tags, but I must be wrong ^o)

This post was edited on 09-14-2007 at 04:19 PM by Spunky.
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