it would be better to use those to differentiate chat channels and to allow more diversity rather than letting people use them at will (in shout they can though)

 

Complete control over those would just encourage spam. Like Kuke said would be better.

 

People are going to spam, period. We do not need the random letters thing, but having underlines and bold would be nice. I know moderators could use it to help their text stick out when trying to get points across. Yes I know we have /ch alert and what not, but this would be another method to help out.

Like I said, spammers will spam no matter what. Even with out special character text to use. The moderators would just have to deal with it as it came, warn /kick and possible /bans if it were bad enough.

**edit**
Also, links are still allowed in chat and are clickable. Should we not disable this to prevent possible issues in the future? I.E some one sending links to a website that can log your passwords, or sending you to websites with inappropriate material on it.

 

like I said the bold, underlines and italic text can be used for more diversity in chat channels (town chat channels extra decoration for 5k?)

also the chatlinks are clientside and the only way of blocking would be stop any link from being posted on the server (could cause other issues)

 

How do you scroll up and down in chat, cause it doesn't work trying my mouse wheel and the up and down arrows keys just go thru messages sent, nice for /sell hand /repair all though.

 

Thanks I shall give that a try.

 

Sorry for double post but according to the minecraft wiki its a patch bug, not something our server is doing http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history#1.2.4
Bugs:

Attempting to use the § symbol in a multiplayer chat will kick the player out with an "Illegal characters in chat" message, and an disconnect.endOfStream error server-side.

 

As wallybean said, this kick message is your client kicking you, not our server. It has always been like that if you try to use unusual characters in minecraft chat. I don't believe there is any way for this to be stopped with a server plugin.