processing newline char

[sanderkob]

I use existing code to prepare my syslog messages. That code was written to send debug output to the serial port.
In the code the\ncharacter sequence is used to generate a linefeed.
The relevant code that sends a string containing the sequence \n is

    String syslogstring =  "Number of repeats\n";
    syslogstring += NrRepeats; // in this case 2
    syslog.log(LOG_INFO,syslogstring.c_str());

The output shows:
Number of repeats#0122

I solve it my replacing the \n before submitting to syslog:
syslogstring.replace("\n", " ");
The output then shows:
Number of repeats 2
So I have no problem, but I would like to know how syslog processes the \n sequence.
It was not clear from the syslog code, I must have overlooked something.