Aaaand, I forgot to add files

src/bridge/colors.cpp

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+#include <bridge/colors.hpp>
+#include <algorithm>
+
+#include <iostream>
+
+void remove_irc_colors(std::string& str)
+{
+  auto it = std::remove_if(str.begin(), str.end(),
+                           [](const char c)
+                           {
+                             if (c == IRC_COLOR_BOLD_CHAR || c == IRC_COLOR_COLOR_CHAR ||
+                                 c == IRC_COLOR_FIXED_CHAR || c == IRC_COLOR_RESET_CHAR ||
+                                 c == IRC_COLOR_REVERSE_CHAR || c == IRC_COLOR_REVERSE2_CHAR ||
+                                 c == IRC_COLOR_UNDERLINE_CHAR || c == IRC_COLOR_ITALIC_CHAR)
+                               return true;
+                             return false;
+                           }
+                           );
+  str.erase(it, str.end());
+}

src/bridge/colors.hpp

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+#ifndef COLORS_INCLUDED
+# define COLORS_INCLUDED
+
+#include <string>
+
+/**
+ * A module handling the conversion between IRC colors and XHTML-IM, and vice versa.
+ */
+
+#define IRC_COLOR_BOLD_CHAR       '\x02'
+#define IRC_COLOR_COLOR_CHAR      '\x03'
+#define IRC_COLOR_RESET_CHAR      '\x0F'
+#define IRC_COLOR_FIXED_CHAR      '\x11'
+#define IRC_COLOR_REVERSE_CHAR    '\x12'
+#define IRC_COLOR_REVERSE2_CHAR   '\x16'
+#define IRC_COLOR_ITALIC_CHAR     '\x1D'
+#define IRC_COLOR_UNDERLINE_CHAR  '\x1F'
+
+void remove_irc_colors(std::string& str);
+
+#endif // COLORS_INCLUDED