On 14 October 2010 06:19, Ed Summers <[email protected]> wrote: > A question from an IRC/wikipedia newbie. > > I've been experimenting with processing pubmsg events in > irc://irc.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia (thanks for the channel btw) and > have been noticing some control characters that I wasn't expecting to > see in the message content. I've attached a raw line form the channel, > where you should be able to see an 0x03 byte (ctrl-c) at position 60. > There are several others scattered throughout the line followed by > integers. Is this a character encoding of some kind that I need to > decode, or some artifact of the IRC protocol that I need to handle?
Those are color codes. See for example http://www.mirc.com/help/colors.html -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
