[TurboGears] Re: whitspace being encoded as \t or \n

[Wavy Davy]

On 23/01/06, David Stanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 1/22/06, Wavy Davy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > So embedded tabs are translated in to two unicode character "\" and
> > "t"? The same for newlines? This seems odd, as html condenses white
> > space.  Is the a specific
> > reason for this behaviour?
>
>  It's not that they are two unicode characters. A '\n' represents a newline.
> Try typing 'print "This is\twhat I\nmean."' into a interactive Python
> session.

Attached is the input template file and the file I get when output. It
is from a slightly modified quickstart project (Inserted tabs and
newlines in the line containing the $now time reference).

It is *two* seperate characters, a '\'  (0x2f) and 't' (0x74) or 'n' (0x6e).

in template tab char 0x09 => 0x2f + 0x74 in generated output
in template newline char 0x0a => 0x2f + 0x6e in generated output

Apologies if I haven't been clear.

> > If I put a tab or newline in to the welcome text on a line containing
> > a $var ref in, yes it does. I actually first noticed when using the
> > toolbox widgets page, not my own application. I then noticed it in my
> > stuff, having been using tg for a couple of months now, and never
> > having seen anything like this before.
>
>  Very interesting. I have not been able to duplicate this behavior.

I have certainly not seen in before. It looks like it might be
something to do with my setup. I am running Ubuntu Dapper development
release, but it has been running on this before for some time without
this problem.

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