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Special characters are used to denote formatting on IRC. These are described on this page.
This table displays how clients handle each character, and (hopefully) give a sense of how widespread each one is.
Tested Clients:
AdiIRC 2.7, BitchX 1.2.1, HexChat 2.12.4, IceChat 9.15, Instantbird 1.5, IRCCloud (2017-08-05), irssi 0.8.20, KiwiIRC (2017-07-09), Konversation 1.6 (#4910), KVIrc 4.9.2, The Lounge v2.7.0, mIRC 7.48, Quassel 0.12.4 (90183ee), WeeChat 1.7
| Char | Caret | Feature | Support from tested clients | Supported Clients | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x02 | ^B | Bold | 100% | AdiIRC, BitchX, HexChat, IceChat, Instantbird, IRCCloud, irssi, KiwiIRC, Konversation, KVIrc, The Lounge, mIRC, Quassel, WeeChat | |
| 0x03 | ^C | mIRC Color | 100% | AdiIRC, BitchX, HexChat, IceChat, Instantbird, IRCCloud, irssi, KiwiIRC, Konversation, KVIrc, The Lounge, mIRC, Quassel, WeeChat | |
| 0x04 | ^D | Hex Color | ~20% | AdiIRC, IRCCloud, The Lounge | |
| 0x11 | ^Q | Monospace | IRCCloud, The Lounge | ||
| 0x12 | ^R | Reverse Color | 0% | Also see 0x16 (Reverse Color). | |
| 0x16 | ^V | Reverse Color | 54% | BitchX, HexChat, IRCCloud, Irssi, Konversation, KVIrc, The Lounge, WeeChat | mIRC doesn't do reverse color but forces the whole rest of the line to be dark-on-light, even if other color codes are given after this character. Also see 0x12 (Reverse Color). |
| 0x16 | ^V | Italics | 0% | Also see 0x1D (Italics). | |
| 0x1E | ^^ | Strikethrough | HexChat, IRCCloud, The Lounge, Textual | ||
| 0x0F | ^O | Reset | |||
| 0x1D | ^] | Italics | 92% | AdiIRC, HexChat, IceChat, Instantbird, IRCCloud, Irssi, KiwiIRC, Konversation, KVIrc, The Lounge, mIRC, Quassel, WeeChat | Also see 0x16 (Italics). |
| 0x1F | ^_ | Underline | 100% | AdiIRC, BitchX, HexChat, IceChat, Instantbird, IRCCloud, Irssi, KiwiIRC, Konversation, KVIrc, The Lounge, mIRC, Quassel, WeeChat |