title: How can I write colored text to an IRC channel with Irssi?
body: <p>I'm searching for a method to write a text with different colors like I always saw on other IRC channels. I want to achieve this with Irssi which is CLI based. I have found multiple methods which didn't work as expected. How can I for example write</p>
  <pre><code>WHAT
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  <p>with green color for example?</p>
  <p>I would like to achieve the same effect from a simple Bash script too.</p>