twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient.me() overagressively backslashes

New submission from SpaceHobo <None>:

When my IRCClient-descended bot class calls:

	self.me(channel, r'\o/')

I am presented with the following in IRC (seen with irssi):

	13:00 * yardbird \\o/

It strikes me that ctcpStringify is overagressively escaping the payload somehow.  

Is there any way I can work around this?  I'm happy to override or replace IRCClient.me() with my own method in my subclass.  I've fiddled with all sorts of dequotation and quotation, but I can only get even numbers of backslashes as a result.

the PRIVMSG functions do not do this.

One last irk: for some reason you can only send actions to channels, while I can happily do /me in a user query window in irssi.  Why the restriction?


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Type     : defect
Component: words
Keywords : irc
Priority : normal
Nosy     : 
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http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3978