Random character in slack from irc

[philliproso]

The slack-irc bot adds a random character to the slack message, sometimes really strangely.

IRC message example
PROBLEM - xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IRC message in slack
PROBLEM - 5xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Any idea where this comes from or where I should look.

[ekmartin]

If you export NODE_ENV as development you should see a debug log for each Slack message posted (i.e. NODE_ENV=development slack-irc --config). Then you can see the raw message that gets posted to Slack, should help with debugging.

[philliproso]

I narrowed it down to the parseText method in bot.js
https://github.com/ekmartin/slack-irc/blob/master/lib/bot.js

[ekmartin]

There's a test for that here: https://github.com/ekmartin/slack-irc/blob/master/test/bot.test.js#L268

You could try adding an assertion using the input message that produces the weird output, then removing replace statements from parseText until it stays the same (for example).

[anarchivist]

I'm wondering if this has something to do with the escape sequences and color codes that are being sent: