// See https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/798
// if we're not sending to an irc bridge we strip the IRC colors
if outProtocol != "irc" {
re := text.re_compile(`\x03(?:\d{1,2}(?:,\d{1,2})?)?|[[:cntrl:]]`)
msgText=re.replace(msgText,"")
}