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[Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Craig,

JSON does not support real line breaks, you would have to replace it with
\n or \r\n .

We can fix this at some point, but its not high on the list right now ;)

regards,

Lars


On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Craig Hollingsworth <
craig.hollingsworth@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Does anyone know how I can enter/display a line feed in a description
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> Have imported descriptions from Excel and line feeds are displaying ok
> upon edit in the meta data app (v2.22) but when called through the API (and
> when ‘showing detail’ in meta data app) the line feeds do not display.
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> Hope someone able to help.
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> Many thanks
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Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
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