I would like to request an option added to $strip(), or a new identifier $trimcodes(), that reduces control codes to the essentials necessary for identical rendering without redundancies.
For examples:
This is ^K02^K04red^K text. -> This is ^K04red^K text.
This is ^B^B^Bbold^B^B^B te^U^Uxt. -> This is ^Bbold^B text.
This request is based on the assumption that something like this may already exist internally and hopefully would not require too much effort to expose to scripting.
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P.S.es
The help file does not mention 'i' for Italic support in /help $strip().
Also, $strip() does strip ^O when no parameters are given, but can not strip ^O if any parameters are given.
