From 82ea8869162c7265deb6fd29053df64e31e786e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BillyGalbreath <Blake.Galbreath@GMail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:40:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Dont strip explicit leading color codes in chat components


diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/util/CraftChatMessage.java b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/util/CraftChatMessage.java
index 5e20a9a61..df627d955 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/util/CraftChatMessage.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/util/CraftChatMessage.java
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ public final class CraftChatMessage {
             }
             out.append(c.getText());
         }
-        return out.toString().replaceFirst("^(" + defaultColor + ")*", "");
+        return out.toString().replaceFirst("^(" + defaultColor + ")", ""); // Paper - GH-1484
     }
 
     public static IChatBaseComponent fixComponent(IChatBaseComponent component) {
-- 
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