diff -u xchat-gnome-0.18/debian/changelog xchat-gnome-0.18/debian/changelog
--- xchat-gnome-0.18/debian/changelog
+++ xchat-gnome-0.18/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+xchat-gnome (1:0.18-2ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/patches/99_colors.patch: (LP: #155543)
+    - add really ^C instead of %C for irc color codes
+      Thx to Aaron Haviland <orion@parsed.net> for the patch
+
+ -- Stephan Hermann <sh@sourcecode.de>  Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:42:18 +0100
+
 xchat-gnome (1:0.18-2ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low
 
   * debian/patches/03_serverlist.patch added:
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- xchat-gnome-0.18.orig/debian/patches/99_colors.patch
+++ xchat-gnome-0.18/debian/patches/99_colors.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Nur -x '*.orig' -x '*~' xchat-gnome-0.18/src/fe-gnome/text-entry.c xchat-gnome-0.18.new/src/fe-gnome/text-entry.c
+--- xchat-gnome-0.18/src/fe-gnome/text-entry.c	2007-03-31 13:12:54.000000000 +0200
++++ xchat-gnome-0.18.new/src/fe-gnome/text-entry.c	2008-03-06 20:41:53.570655389 +0100
+@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@
+ color_code_activate (GtkMenuItem *item, gpointer data)
+ {
+ 	int color = GPOINTER_TO_INT (data);
+-	char *code = g_strdup_printf ("%%C%d", color);
++	char *code = g_strdup_printf ("\003%d", color);
+ 	int position = gtk_editable_get_position (GTK_EDITABLE (gui.text_entry));
+ 	gtk_editable_insert_text (GTK_EDITABLE (gui.text_entry), code, strlen (code), &position);
+ 	gtk_editable_set_position (GTK_EDITABLE (gui.text_entry), position + strlen (code));