When linking runewords in chat, for some reason the game adds two letters before the item link. This is what it looks like:
ÿc[Ancients’ Pledge]
It looks like someone accidentally added a redundant tag, since when I copied and pasted it from the game log it looked like this until I edited it to make it look like how it does in game: ÿc[ÿc4Ancients’ Pledge]ÿc0
That extra “yc” shouldn’t be there.
I think that might actually be the color code for “gold” on the runeword. (color code might be a strong expression in this case, what I mean is how the engine handles colors in general.)
At least if I remember correctly from a big handful of years away, the text from colourful profiles (remember those?) looked something like this if you pasted them into a unicode text box.
The fix here would be to apply a hidden attribute to those “color codes”.
Looks like a simple typo. yc0 is white, yc4 is gold. They want the [] to be white while the runeword text to be gold, but clearly they forgot the 0 for the first [ and since it’s not a complete code, you can see it.
Ah yep, that makes sense.