Bug 231862

Summary: Add support for ANSI text formatting escape sequences
Product: [Applications] konversation Reporter: rnddim
Component: generalAssignee: Konversation Bugs <konversation-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: hein
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.2.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description rnddim 2010-03-23 03:53:16 UTC 
Version:           1.2.3 (using KDE 4.4.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

ANSI escape sequences control the formatting of text. I come across them a lot in the channels I visit, and it's annoying to see a bunch of gibberish instead of the formatting.

An ANSI escape sequence begins with the escape character (U+001B) and a left bracket ([) (it can also begin with just the character sequence introducer, U+009B). It then goes on with a code of some sort for stating the purpose of the sequence (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Codes for a list)

This would allow for proper formatting of text, and possibly rich text editor functions later on.
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2010-03-23 03:56:55 UTC 
Konversation presently doesn't have ANSI escape sequence support, but only support for the mIRC color and formatting codes more commonly used on IRC.