config List, Colors

Hi, i want to make so the StringList will be color supported. My code is half working. Everything is fine if i dont use the '&' as the first letter/symbol.

So this is not working "&5Hello"
but this is working "H&5ello"

Do you guys have any ideas to make this work?
Here is my code

Code:

if(args.length == 0){
            List<String> Message = Main.plugin.getConfig().getStringList("HelpMessages");
            for(String mess : Message){
                mess = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', mess);
                sender.sendMessage(mess);
            }
        }

 

@stamline
Try adding something at the beginning of the message(you could even add Chatcolor.WHITE, that way nothing is changed and no extra text is added.).

 

If you dont care about people using & on the messages, you could simply do .replace("&", "§")

 

@Zombie_Striker

Nope.

@pedrinholuizf

Even less correct.

@stamline

Make sure in the config file that you're escaping the string properly, an attribute that begins with "&" has a different meaning in YAML.