Why does the sourcecode tag chew up formatted source code?

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  ednisley · Member · Sep 26, 2013 at 11:24 am

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  For the last month or so, WP has been chewing up formatted source code into a single line, by inserting br tags at each former line ending.

  The result looks like this:

  [sourcecode language="cpp" gutter="false"]
  // Dishwasher rack protector
  // Simplified version for OpenSCAD course

  ThreadThick = 0.25;
  ThreadWidth = 0.40;

  Protrusion = 0.1; // make holes end cleanly

  There’s no way to recover the code after that happens, other than pasting it from the source file.

  This doesn’t happen every time and it does *not* happen when saving the post, so there’s a problem with the conversion from the editable post format to the backend database format. The post that’s going up today (26 Sep 2013) looked fine when I saved it yesterday, but all four code blocks were destroyed overnight.

  Perhaps some new chunk of WP code isn’t handling the closing br tag correctly, as only the br / tags remain?

  If you need any further reports, I can (alas) provide them as they happen…

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  ednisley · Member · Sep 26, 2013 at 11:26 am

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  Oh, and this goofy “forum” interface corrects the br tags, so that code listing looks fine. There’s no obvious way to escape the tag, but just insert one of these at each line end:

  open angle
  br
  space
  front slash
  close angle

  to get the picture. Sigh…