html() etc.

'Hack' is the most accurate description of the patch I did. It's basically a copy of the code for decompose() that converts the internal markup codes into <font>, <b> and <u> tags for ansi, and the appropriate html tags for Pueblo, and then converts text to the appropriate HTML entities instead of escaping it for MUSHcode. It does seem to work correctly, though, at least, and would be a useful feature for mainstream Penn, I think, given how well PennMUSHes can tie into the outside world via SQL and suchlike now. Someone else can probably rewrite it better than I did, but I'll include the patch I made, anyway, which adds an htmlencode() function.

(The problem Mercutio mentioned about needing to have Pueblo enabled only applies to markup generated by things like tagwrap(), which seem to only bother to do anything when Pueblo is enabled, presumably to save the time of adding the tags when they'll always just be stripped away again. But if that were changed, so it always generated the markup - even if it wouldn't be sent to players b/c of Pueblo being disabled - it would make the function work fully.)

Example:
think htmlencode(ansi(rh,<This> & [tagwrap(a,href=www.pennmush.org,this)] are%b%b%btests))
<font color="red"><b>&lt;This&gt; &amp; <a href=www.pennmush.org>this</a> are&nbsp; &nbsp;tests</b></font>

Another possibility to the problem is writing an exact opposite of htmlencode()... I think? Maybe. Something that transforms HTML to Penn directly, instead of using it as markup and then sending it. Pennencode? I dunno.