A Pidgin/libpurple plugin that lets you send italic/bold/underlined/colored text, and view the same in return.
Forked from https://code.google.com/p/pidgin-irc-format/, originally by Eion Robb eionrobb@gmail.com.
You'll need at least pkgconf, pidgin-dev and gcc installed, and maybe a couple of others I don't know about.
# Compile irc_format.so
make
# Copy in to ~/.purple/plugins/ (the default location for linux installations of pidgin)
make install
???
Pull requests welcome.