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The MSN Chat Control sends a "Style" CTCP rather than a normal IRC Message.
\x01S <color><style><font>;<character set> <message>\x01
Colors
The MSN Chat Control supports 16 text colors, which are identical to the colors found in the CSS Level 1 specification. If the text color specified matches the background color (usual white), the default text color (usually black) is shown.
The MSN Chat Control allows 127 colors (1 - 127) to be specified as a single byte, with each number mapping to one of the 16 text colors shown in the table below. The mapping of colors above 16 uses an unusual algorithm that does not include aqua.
if (value != 16) { value = value % 15; }
if (value = 0) { value = 15 }
| Name | Value | HTML Color Code | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| black | 1 | #000000 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| white | 2 | #ffffff |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| maroon | 3 | #800000 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| green | 4 | #008000 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| navy | 5 | #000080 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| olive | 6 | #808000 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| purple | 7 | #800080 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| teal | 8 | #008080 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| silver | 9 | #c0c0c0 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| gray | 10 | #808080 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| red | 11 | #ff0000 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| lime | 12 | #00ff00 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| blue | 13 | #0000ff |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| yellow | 14 | #ffff00 |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| fuchsia | 15 | #ff00ff |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| aqua | 16 | #00ffff |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
Styles
The MSN Chat Control supports bold, italic, and underlined text, although it does not support sending underlined text. To avoid text being unreadable, if the text color specified matches the background color (usual white), the default text color (usually black) is shown instead.
The MSN Chat Control allows 127 styles (1 - 127) to be specified as a single byte bitmask, with numbers outside of that range possibly overwriting existing color information. The bitmask value is increased by one to avoid NUL being sent to/from the server.
enum enumChatFormat {
chfNone = 0x0,
chfBold = 0x1,
chfItalic = 0x2,
chfUnderline = 0x4,
}
If we wanted to make our text Bold (1), Italic (2) and Underlined (4), we would send the sum of those numbers, plus one (8) as a byte.
| Value | Description | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| 2 | Bold | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| 3 | Italic | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| 4 | Bold & Italic | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| 5 | Underline | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| 6 | Bold & Underline | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| 7 | Italic & Underline | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| 8 | Bold, Italic & Underline | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
Font
Any font on the client's computer can be used to style text by specifying the font name as a string. As there is no sharing of fonts, if the recipient does not have the specified font installed, a default font such as Tahoma may be used.
Character Sets
The MSN Chat Control supports various character sets. The default character set is Ansi (0). It's recommended that any new clients send messages with the Oem (255) character set, which supports Unicode.
| Name | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Baltic | 186 | Baltic character set. |
| Mac | 77 | Characters used by Macintosh. |
| Russian | 204 | Russian character set. |
| EastEurope | 238 | Eastern European character set. |
| Thai | 222 | Thai character set. |
| Vietnamese | 163 | Vietnamese character set. |
| Turkish | 162 | Turkish character set. |
| Greek | 161 | Greek character set. |
| Arabic | 178 | Arabic character set. |
| Hebrew | 177 | Hebrew character set. |
| Johab | 130 | Korean character set. |
| Oem | 255 | Extended ASCII character set used with disk operating system (DOS) and some Microsoft Windows fonts. |
| ChineseBig5 | 136 | Chinese character set used mostly in Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan. |
| GB2312 | 134 | Chinese character set used in mainland China. |
| Hangul | 129 | Korean character set. |
| Hangeul | 129 | Another common spelling of the Korean character set. |
| ShiftJIS | 128 | Japanese character set. |
| Symbol | 2 | Symbol character set. |
| Default | 1 | System default character set. |
| Ansi | 0 | ASCII character set. |