Re: Extra colour...

[David Oftedal <david@start.no>]

> What first strikes me is the lack of support in other clients... If the
> plan was to include this possibility in text sent to channels/queries,
> you'd need to convince everyone else to do it too... much like when
> mIRC added colours in the first place I imagine (I wasn't on IRC then,
> only heard about all the problems from friends who were.. ;).
> 
> There was some discussion on this list earlier about a completely
> different implementation of colours, using CTCP, but I don't know what
> came of it...
> 

Actually, I talked to some people using mIRC the other day, and they 
appeared to think that mIRC supports much more than those 16 (or 
something) color codes. I don't remember what the syntax was, though.

I wonder if it would be possible to put new formatting tags into the 
Unicode Private Usage area? Those should be effectively stripped out in 
the encoding conversion, and thus not visible to non-unicode-enabled 
users. (Though it would probably be really annoying to irssi users.)

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