From 9249e0015226ab3782b797e0f76f0144c9b34dcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Chenet <chaica@ohmytux.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:57:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] interpret linebreak. fixes #42

---
 feed2toot/message.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/feed2toot/message.py b/feed2toot/message.py
index 8ccbad0..b7f4ea9 100644
--- a/feed2toot/message.py
+++ b/feed2toot/message.py
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ from feed2toot.tootpost import TootPost
 def build_message(entrytosend, tweetformat, rss):
     '''populate the rss dict with the new entry'''
     tweetwithnotag = tweetformat.format(**entrytosend)
+    # replace line breaks
+    tootwithlinebreaks = tweetwithnotag.replace('\\n', '\n')
     # remove duplicates from the final tweet
-    dedup = RemoveDuplicates(tweetwithnotag)
+    dedup = RemoveDuplicates(tootwithlinebreaks)
     # only append hashtags if they exist
     # remove last tags if tweet too long
     if 'hashtags' in rss: