"No transformation is done to user-posted content at input time."

None?

Your explanation seems contradictory.

If no transformations are done than what's in the database would be the raw URL encoded text=gibberish. Not some special PerlMonks code or html subset or whatever.

I'll need to follow that link when I have time, but I find it hard to believe no basic form processing is done prior to applying any special formatting, which would explain why it is not fixable.

Or seemingly so, because the newline is being stripped at some lower level before any special formatting is applied.

I suspect the newline is being stripped before the post goes into the database.

If so, it has nothing to do with anything applied later. Once stripped, the newline is gone so there is nothing to perform a replacement on, or do anything else with.

The Everything engine apparently uses CGI.pm for basic form data processing on a low level, prior to anything else being applied, before the data goes into the database

Tom

In reply to Re^10: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others) by PerlGuy(Tom)
in thread Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others) by ELISHEVA

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