markdown in irc nickname

[Helianthella]

If a user on IRC is named _nick_ it will be sent to discord as-is and so appear as nick but italicized instead of appearing as _nick_ non-italicized. To avoid this, discord-irc should prepend any markdown in nicknames with backslashes so _nick_ would be sent as \_nick\_ and show properly on discord

[unnes]

I'm trying to block an IRC user with the name "|N_X|4_cG_4iH4xW\Nkx1z2GXL0u"

Trying to escape the underscores and backslashes results in the following error:

/usr/lib/node_modules/discord-irc/dist/cli.js:48
throw new _errors.ConfigurationError('The configuration file contains invalid JSON');
^

ConfigurationError: The configuration file contains invalid JSON
at readJSONConfig (/usr/lib/node_modules/discord-irc/dist/cli.js:48:13)
at Object.run [as default] (/usr/lib/node_modules/discord-irc/dist/cli.js:62:98)
at Object. (/usr/lib/node_modules/discord-irc/dist/index.js:23:27)
at Module._compile (module.js:643:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:654:10)
at Module.load (module.js:556:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:499:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:491:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:684:10)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16)

Any suggestions?

[Helianthella]

@unnes try HTML entities, or just wrap the whole thing in an inline code block

[Throne3d]

You shouldn't need to escape underscores, just backslashes and quotes. If you're getting an "invalid JSON" error, you may have done it wrong (perhaps JSON doesn't like you escaping underscores). This also seems mostly unrelated to the main issue here, so I'd suggest putting this into a new issue if you still have trouble.

@mekolat I don't think that helps solve the problem? How would you wrap a bit of JSON in an inline code block, and why would HTML entities be relevant – it's JSON?

[Helianthella]

I meant on Discord, not in the config.json file; I thought @unnes was trying to escape the name on Discord, which is what the issue (#237) is about..

[Throne3d]

Ah, right – no, I think it's an unrelated issue which was put here erroneously.