If you use a TextareaField object and make it readonly with $fields->makeReadonly() the content (saved priviously in a writable form) shows it without any breaks. It should call nl2br() before printing.
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Hi m-phil,
I'm sure this is the kinda thing that silverstripe would great appreciate as a pull request :)
ok, great give me the link ;-)
https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/issues
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http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/misc/contributing/code