Re: [Unreal-users] ACTION

[tabris <ta...@ta...>]

DSL wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone help me? I am wondering what character is before the ACTION
> on a PRIVMSG?
>
> Looks like:
> :name!name@10.10.10.10 <mailto:name%21name@10.10.10.10> PRIVMSG #room
> : ACTION something
>
> I am getting invalid character when parsing the data.
>
> Error:
>
> The char '0x1' after '' is not a valid XML character
of course not. why should it be?
it is however a valid character for certain purposes. Basically IRC has
used \001 for CTCPs, like this (variants exist)
:src PRIVMSG dest :\001TOKEN payload1 payload2\001

a CTCP reply replaces PRIVMSG with NOTICE

IRC clients use \002 for a colour prefix, like this: \002<fg>,<bg>
There is also underline and reverse, but I don't remember what those
codes are.

and don't try to parse IRC with XML parsers... it's nothing similar.