color code stuff also eats dollar signs about triviabot

[edunham]

also

09:47 <@trivia> Next question:
09:47 <@trivia> History: The Symbols _ (Addition) And - (Subtraction) Came 
                Into General Use In 1489
09:47 <@trivia> Clue: +
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[rawsonj]

This is a duplicate of #39 since the same code responsible for that is responsible for this.

There is a fix in the refactoring branch that will take care of this, as it completely changes how sanitization happens in the bot.

You can enumerate the number of things the bot will eat and file issues for them, but it is not productive.

The code responsible just calls isalnum() to check if there is any weird characters at the beginning of the string and eats them if they are present. This was flawed but seemed to work at the time.

The new method sanitizes by regex, so will preserve symbols at the beginning of the string. It's just going to take me a while to merge the refactored branch since working on this is just a hobby and my time is taken up by other things.

Closing this issue since it's a duplicate.