[Zope] carriage returns and newlines entered into HTML form inputs

HTML Form contains a textarea inputs. Form submits data to MySQL database. User wants to enter distinct 'lines' into a textarea input box - such as a formatted mailing address. Street Address Suite / routing City, ST zipcode They press return at end of each line, and the textarea input box complies formatting the data on their screen. However, when I retrieve the data from the SQL database, the formatting / carriage returns are gone? Is this my imagination, or has it dropped the formatting characters? How do I pass/retain/interpret the returns? This is probably a simple NEW ZOPE USER issue, I just don't know how to phrase it when searching the list archives. Thanks in advance.