[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Line Breaks (Windows/UNIX)

[RENTON Scott]

Hi folks,

Sorry to have two tickets in at once. I tried this one out on the Google Group- thought I'd hit paydirt, but then discovered the advice was helpful but didn't solve the issue.

We're just trying to get our heads round line breaks assignation. We have an archivist who is cataloguing content, and we notice through the API that they are being recorded with Windows (CR-LF) line endings.

 "subnotes": [
        {
          "jsonmodel_type": "note_text",
          "content": "Recorded by E. Sinclair on Vatersay in 1962, (eg. SA1962.05)\r\n\r\nRecorded by James Ross on Vatersay in 1956, (eg.SA1956.069.1, SA1956.087)\r\n\r\nThis lady is great (SA1960.124 proverbs)! JB 9/6/09\r\n\r\nThere is a duplicate 5810 - use this one. EmM 9/6/09\r\n\r\nbiog info on SA1958.157 track 3. \"Brief history of contributor.\r\n\r\nNan MacKinnon was born in Kentangaval in 1903, and moved to Vatersay at age four. She spent several years working on the mainland, then came home and worked at the herring. She learned most of her songs when she came home, from her mother.\" more detail on tape, mentions other place names.",
          "publish": false
        }

It appears that these line breaks do not appear in 'View' mode in the frontend as being respected, but while we can see them in 'Edit' mode, the cataloguers do need to see the line breaks in 'View' mode. If we were seeing UNIX LF endings (\n), it does seem to work.

We thought it was just that the users had been cutting and pasting from a Word Doc, and if we changed manually in the interface they'd be fixed, but apparently not. Even copying in the content in the attached file- which I've converted to UNIX file endings results in Windows ones. Is it possible there's a hidden character I'm not converting that's governing all of this?

Cheers
Scott




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Scott Renton

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