Colors aren't parsed correctly in topic.

[blasphemy]

If you turn off color stripping for topics, it doesn't parse the colors, only boxes appear.

[5moufl]

And I get this behavior whether or not "Use the Text box font and colors" is checked.

[TingPing]

So there are 3 solutions to this i can think of:

1. Always strip colors
2. Convert to a gtklabel. Only loss is editing in it and a bit of work to parse colors.
3. Add functionality to gtk's built in Entry widget.

[NoneGiven]

Ideally there should still be some way to get the control characters to appear in the topic bar for ease of editing while maintaing color information.

[zertap]

Doesn't handle multiple colors well.

I'd like to see it like it shows up in the chat buffer. Maybe have it show the symbols when editing and ++ if you include actual ability to insert the colors.

[TingPing]

@zertap I had it hide the symbols at first, but it was very buggy. My personal goal was just the main input box and the topic bar was just a nice bonus, so this is something to fix at a later time.

As for the multiple colors it seems to work here, mind pasting the raw text here?

[Z1ni]

With the newest version the colors work, but the raw symbols still show up. Or is it intended? In that case it would be nice to have some kind of toggle in the settings to show/hide control characters.

Also for some reason multiple colors don't work every time (see zertap's screenshot, same channel is question)

[TingPing]

@Z1ni See my previous comment, but I'll reopen with plans to change that.

[zertap]

Sorry for the delay, here:
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You'll have to convert the escape characters to the actual control characters.

[zertap]

Apparently it is UTF-8 (multibyte?) characters that are breaking it (topic without utf-8 chars was displayed correctly to him):

screen is from a cli irc-client, weechat, since I don't mainly use hexchat

[Hawxy]

Any update on this issue?

[GTAXL]

Yes, I have the same issue too and it irritates me as colors in the topic seems like a cool feature. Can you please fix this and provide an update on the status? Here is what I get, http://pik.gtaxl.net/24_11_15_20_12_21.png using charset UTF-8 and font Arial Bold 12. As you can see the color is fine in the chat section with the same font and charset, it's just in the topic bar it displays the color codes used to create said color, which are supposed to be hidden.

[samcv]

This is still a issue. Is there any update on the status of this? This is my main annoyance with hexchat.

[b0nk]

Still an issue in 2.14.2