Hello,

I created a custom field and set the help text with the line breaks and when it is hovered in the detail page it displays as 

First Line
Second Line

When I checked the html page generated by Salesforce the code looks like below.

sfdcPage.setHelp('xxxx', 'FirstLine\r\u003Cbr\u003ESecondLine');

which i assume is complicated version of 

sfdcPage.setHelp('xxxx', 'FirstLine\r\nSecondLine');

Now when I added a translated text in Setup -> Translation Workbench -> Translate for another language and given the value as 

First Line_FR\r\nSecond Line_FR

but in the UI, it displays everything in a single line and there is no line break but instead it displays all the characters entered above. When looked at the html page generated by Salesforce this is what I see

sfdcPage.setHelp('xxxx', 'First line_FR \\r\\n Second line_FR');

SF automatically inserts another escape sequence character '\' so that it displays what we enter in the translated text. I tried replacing '\r\n' with the actual value which SF used '\r\u003Cbr\u003E' in the translation workbench but still no luck. Is there any other way to display the line break?