no there not thats the whole reason i said it.
If you have one space colored blue and follwoing that one space colored red, the strip well remove the colors and leave two spaces, if however you happen to be striping colors from the mirc control panel options (options/irc/messages) then the colors have been prestriped and the two spaces wont be there only one, this is exactly what happened to me, i prestrip colors and one day i turned them on, and one of my matching scripts stop working. the resulting text now had 2 spaces not one in it