Formatting codes do not work

[Masy]

Color codes work fine but the formatting codes don't work.
-> http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Formatting_codes

[worktycho]

Looks like a bug in the server not core. Possibly related to cuberite/cuberite#852

[madmaxoft]

The server itself uses the at-sign (@) for color-codes, which is kinda stupid because that's a rather common character. People have been saying they want it changed to the and-sign (&), but that conflicts with most parameterized URLs.

[worktycho]

Which issue is that, because I'd like to suggest we use \a.

[madmaxoft]

A backslash for formatting codes? That's new. It'd be somewhat nerve-wrecking in code - it has to be escaped, which is often forgotten. But otherwise that could work. The only thing I can think of using backslashes is Windows path separator.

[worktycho]

No as in the bell character. Or any of the other effectively obsolete ASCII charicters: Start Of Heading, Start Of Text, End Of Text, End Of Transmission, Enquiry, Acknowledge, backspace, Vertical Tab, Form Feed, ... Theres loads of characters below char 32 which aren't used any more.

[madmaxoft]

But those can't be typed on a keyboard.

[worktycho]

But if they're only used internally then we can just use the escape sequences. For anything exposed we should use the same as the client.

[madmaxoft]

The point is that they're exposed.

[worktycho]

Then why aren't we using the same char as vanilla, any character that is on a keyboard will have the same problem as @?

[bearbin]

Well Bukkit normally uses &, but I don't think I've ever used my ¬ character.

[worktycho]

I'm pretty sure I have, I don't think there a single key on my key board I haven't used at least once.

[NiLSPACE]

I don't have that character on my keyboard though.

[Masy]

me either, i think & or @ are the best solutions...

[bearbin]

I'd say go with & then, because it's what bukkit stuff uses.

But make sure to add && as an escape, and only convert it to a colour code when it's followed by one of the right nums/letters.

[Masy]

Also you shouldn't be scared of broken links, the colores are just visual, minecraft converts it into colors so links still work...