s0x/Z45 — Issue #1: Misuse of colon delimiter
Author: halfdan
Created: 2012-01-08 13:24:50+00:00
State: open

It's actually not a good idea to use the colon as delimiter in messages delivered on either IRC or XMPP. The colon is used by some clients to mark smileys. E.g. :beer: or :music:

The colon is also the starting symbol of most smileys today, so a message like "dirty dancing sucks" will be forwarded to IRC/XMPP as "IRC:dirty dancing sucks". Graphical clients will interpret the ":d" substring as a smiley.