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uqbar
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9 years ago

line break character in JSON

We are trying to use add_folder_member with a custom_message that includes line breaks.   We tried passing them as \n , \r, \n\r , \u0010. They get all stripped out   What is the right syntax to ...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
No, unfortunately I don't have a solution to offer for this.
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uqbar
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9 years ago
ok thank for your help Greg. we'll adopt "write unformatted one-liners" as a temporary solution, hoping the support for line breaks will make into the features in the future

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