Shoutbox

Ok, so I realise this has probably been covered already but I cannot for the life of me find a pre-existing thread on the subject
No matter what terms I use to search with, I can't seem to find a thread that actually addresses the problem I'm having.


Basically, I can't format text when chatting to someone in MSN, I mean I can but it doesn't work.

The BB-code tags work at my end but when the reach the person I'm chatting to, they see the actual tags as opposed to the formatted text (IIRC, they're an msgplus thing, aren't they? So if she doesn't have msgplus, you wouldn't expect them to work, would you?).
CTRL+B works at my end, but again when what I've written reaches the other end, instead of it being formatted, there are two little boxes around the text (like there is in the 'composition' box when I'm typing). CTRL+I doesn't even work...

I don't know if it's worth mentioning that the person I'm chatting to is on a Mac, she uses either MSN for Macs or something called 'Adium' but none of the ways I have of formatting the text work in either program.
On the other hand, in Adium, when she uses the weird Mac button instead of CTRL, bold, italic, underline, they all work properly and display correctly at my end as well as hers.


This is really bugging me so I was hoping someone here might be able to shed some light on it.
Thanks.