Problem when retrieving text in JSON format containing line breaks with jQuery

If you would like to keep the line breaks, you might try:

function parse($text) {
    // Damn pesky carriage returns...
    $text = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $text);
    $text = str_replace("\r", "\n", $text);

    // JSON requires new line characters be escaped
    $text = str_replace("\n", "\\n", $text);
    return $text;
}