Calibre 4/4.1 "Metadata Edit" (HTML-view) changed behaviour

[ajki]

With v4 I've noticed a new behaviour within "Edit Metadata" as html-view.

From v4 on there seem to be additions to the html-text in form of cr/lf or cr or lf characters. In practice this looks like this:

"<div>
<p>some text</p>...."

In general, versions before v4 left any html-text untouched, i.e. the text above had looked like:

"<div><p>some text</p>...."

This behaviour attracted my attention because I filter off all unwanted tags or garbage out of descriptions with an external little helper - and explicitly this little helper strips any cr/lf combination out of descriptions (and unnessary blanks and whatnot).

But whenever I open up a sanitized description with the v4 versions the shown behaviour results.

(Generally, I wouldn't mind cr/lf whithin html-text - these are legal and allowed within html, so why shouldn't they show up within Calibre; but since my Kobo Aura HD read and displayed the descriptions without cr... and it saved a little space, I had removed them)

[kovidgoyal]

Yes this is behavior of the Qt Rich Text Edit widget, sadly not much I can do about it. Read https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/thirteen for details