AS - 3 Add event message problems & error

Three problems noted.

1. Including control characters in the text being sent through add event message causes a blank line to be displayed instead

2. Inclusion of control characters for bold etc that are a de facto standard on pretty much all clients do not work either when text is sent through AS via the add event message, or [with the BLAND style] when shown in the channel by other clients.

3. Sending a blank variable to the add even message causes an error

I didn't check to see how "send message" handles this

Demonstrated in the following lines

tell application "Colloquy" to add event message (ASCII character 2) & "hello"

tell application "Colloquy" to add event message ""

Control characters are used for bold etc. in Colloquy. We use HTML for this, so "<b>bold</b>" gives you what you want, same for send message. Control characters mess up XML, thats why you get a blank line. We should strip control chars.

How about this: Colloquy should provide a scripting interface for converting 'traditional' (i.e. mIRC's horrible defacto standard) IRC formatting codes into HTML.

This would solve a bunch of issues that scripters are having. (See for example <http://project.colloquy.info/ticket/556 )