Telnet Escape Codes?

[OnyxDragun]

I'm working on a MUD client and so far it's fun and works expect for what I think are Telnet Command codes that I am trying to ignore (I dont need to reply/respond)

In the text that comes to me it shows up like this: ÿü


But when I use wireshark, the bytes are :ff:fb:01

So I've been trying to do this:

std::string TELNETESC = "\0xFF\0xFB\0x01";
std::string str = "thedatathatcamefroma_TCPSocketÿü"
size_t pos = str.find(TELNETESC, 0);
while (pos != std::string::npos)
{
  str.replace(pos, TELNETESC.length(), "");
  pos = str.find(TELNETESC, pos + 1);
}

std::string TELNETESC = "\0xFF\0xFB\0x01";
std::string str = "thedatathatcamefroma_TCPSocketÿü"
size_t pos = str.find(TELNETESC, 0);
while (pos != std::string::npos)
{
  str.replace(pos, TELNETESC.length(), "");
  pos = str.find(TELNETESC, pos + 1);
}

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Though that doesn't seem to get rid of the characters.

Any ideas?