$chr(11) is not the color control code.
ctrl+__
b= 2
u= 31
r= 22
k= 3
o= 15
Maybe the mutilated server you are on is using different control code characters.
-genius_at_work
It doesn't matter how F'd up the server is, as I'm extracting the infoline and trying to strip codes from with with mIRC.
11 is ctrl-k
source:
http://www.nthelp.com/ascii.htm