mIRC interprets other clients Italic codes as reverse (CTRL+R) and vice versa. So, mIRC has reverse instead of italic. Maybe because it's custom Graphic window cannot render italics as easily as reverse. Either way, it's too late to change it now. It would make mIRC incompatible with older versions, and all that would do is generate complaints. If mIRC introduced a new code especially for italic.. that would be pointless.. because all the other clients which already support italic use mIRC's CTRL+R code. So it would cause an even greater incompatibilty issue that changing mIRC's rendering of CTRL+R. Perhaps an option, To have your own client interpret CTRL+R as italic or reverse is the answer. You may chat with people who don't use mIRC, and wish to see there Italics...
