looking for a regular expression

[Tim Roberts]

"alex23" <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Tim Roberts wrote:
>> What is your signature supposed to be?  It looks like you are trying to
>> inject ANSI terminal escape sequences.  The vast majority of Usenet
>> participants are now reading these articles through GUI newsreaders or
>> web-based readers which show this as 5 lines of unrecognizable line noise.
>
>It renders as (I'm guessing) Chinese through Firefox on an XP box with
>East Asian Languages enabled. If you really want to see this the way
>it's intended, then check out:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_East_Asian_characters
>
>"The vast majority" of Usenet participants who need it will most likely
>already have it. Try not to extrapolate too wildly from your individual
>& clearly experiential evidence.

No, it's more than that.  I recognized that most of the string was intended
to be Chinese, but there are ANSI terminal escape sequences sprinkled
through there.  Look at the start of the first line: "<esc>[1;30;40;m".  No
GUI app is going to render that.

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