Bug 24756

Summary: do something clever with (NORMAL, "/me is the command to send actions")
Product: Telepathy Reporter: Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component: gabbleAssignee: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity: minor    
Priority: lowest    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Simon McVittie 2009-10-27 07:14:56 UTC 
"/say" is unimplementable in XMPP, because there's no way to escape /me at the beginning of a message - Gabble sends <body>/me is used to send actions</> and there's no way for the recipient to tell that /me was meant to be literal text.

The long-term solution is to get round to writing a XEP for /me, with something like:

(ACTION, "does stuff") -> <body action="true">/me does stuff</>
(NORMAL, "/me is the command to send actions") -> <body action="false">/me is the command to send actions</>
(NORMAL, "lalala") -> <body>lalala</>

One possible short-term hack would be to prepend a zero-width space to the message text for non-ACTION messages that start with "/me "...
Comment 1 Will Thompson 2011-10-03 04:31:30 UTC 
There already is a XEP for /me: <http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0245.html>. It does not say anything about this.

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