[Melbourne-pm] Handling line ending characters

[Kahlil Hodgson]

On 02/11/12 14:31, Robert Norris wrote:
>> A further question is do we convert the line endings for the
>> validation and still store the originally submitted text, or do we
>> store a converted version?
>
> Converted. Normalised, if you will. Unless its going to make a
> difference if you send it back to the client for display. I would hope
> not.

I generally normalise the data before validating (trimming white space 
at the edges) and store and return the normalised version.  Do this for 
both server and client side for consistency.  Have not encountered, nor 
can think of, any scenarios where this breaks anything.

K
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