Pinkfish colour codes



One of the extensions to the original protocol is the use of Pinkfish colour codes: These are colour codes that do not require the (unprintable) ESC-character (like ANSI) and can thus be used over intermud lines and in remote who/finger answers.

These colours are not used in the CD library, but were developed by Pinkfish@Discworld to enable colours in players' say and tell commands. Some muds (like TMI-2) seem to support these codes in all commands, but most (like OuterSpace) only support Pinkfish codes for the intermud lines.

These codes are always surrounded by %^ pairs. So in order to send the text foobar in red, use %^RED%^foobar%^RESET%^. If you want to quote the litteral text %^, it should be sent as %%^^.

Known codes are: 

RED     BLUE     ORANGE     YELLOW     GREEN     BLACK     WHITE     CYAN
MAGENTA B_RED    B_BLUE     B_ORANGE   B_YELLOW  B_GREEN   B_MAGENTA B_BLACK
B_WHITE B_CYAN   FLASH      BOLD       REVERSE   UNDERLINE INITTERM  RESET
WINDOW  ENDTERM  STATUS