diff --git a/src/pooptmodule.c b/src/pooptmodule.c
index b696fe4e..8a021379 100644
--- a/src/pooptmodule.c
+++ b/src/pooptmodule.c
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ static PyObject *poopt_cut_text(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
   int last_space = -1;
   int start_pos = 0;
 
+  int w = width; /* this is a width that increases to make the length of char
+		     of colors attribute be ignored */
   PyObject* retlist = PyList_New(0);
 
   while (buffer[bpos])
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ static PyObject *poopt_cut_text(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 	  start_pos = spos + 1;
 	  last_space = -1;
 	}
-      else if ((spos - start_pos) >= width)
+      else if ((spos - start_pos) >= w)
       	{
       	  if (last_space == -1)
       	    {
@@ -72,11 +74,24 @@ static PyObject *poopt_cut_text(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
       	      start_pos = last_space + 1;
       	      last_space = -1;
       	    }
+	  w = width;
       	}
       if (buffer[bpos] == 25)	/* \x19 */
       	{
-      	  spos++;
-      	  bpos += 2;
+	  while (buffer[bpos] &&
+		 buffer[bpos] != 'u' &&
+		 buffer[bpos] != 'b' &&
+		 buffer[bpos] != 'o' &&
+		 buffer[bpos] != '}')
+	    {
+	      bpos++;
+	      spos++;
+	      w++;
+	    }
+	  bpos++;
+	  spos++;
+	  w++;
+	  spos--;
       	}
       else
       if (buffer[bpos] <= 127) /* ASCII char on one byte */
diff --git a/src/xhtml.py b/src/xhtml.py
index 973a4d18..99e0bf01 100644
--- a/src/xhtml.py
+++ b/src/xhtml.py
@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ import re
 import subprocess
 import curses
 from sleekxmpp.xmlstream import ET
+
+import xml.sax.saxutils
+
 from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
+
 from sys import version_info
 
 from config import config
@@ -399,7 +403,7 @@ def poezio_colors_to_html(string):
     while next_attr_char != -1:
         attr_char = string[next_attr_char+1].lower()
         if next_attr_char != 0:
-            res += string[:next_attr_char]
+            res += xml.sax.saxutils.escape(string[:next_attr_char])
         if attr_char == 'o':
             for elem in opened_elements[::-1]:
                 res += '</%s>' % (elem,)
@@ -423,7 +427,7 @@ def poezio_colors_to_html(string):
         else:
             string = string[next_attr_char+2:]
         next_attr_char = string.find('\x19')
-    res += string
+    res += xml.sax.saxutils.escape(string)
     for elem in opened_elements[::-1]:
         res += '</%s>' % (elem,)
     res += "</p></body>"