From f3419ea18192113ebfb66599c0c1332932045c9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Nacin <nacin@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:10:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Revert [16995] due to the way the data enters the db. props
 garyc40, see #15454.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@17142 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/formatting.php | 12 ++++++------
 wp-includes/user.php       |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index 718ad71a78..c0e4f14063 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -1114,8 +1114,8 @@ function force_balance_tags( $text ) {
  * Acts on text which is about to be edited.
  *
  * Unless $richedit is set, it is simply a holder for the 'format_to_edit'
- * filter. If $richedit is set true htmlspecialchars() will be run on the
- * content, converting special characters to HTMl entities.
+ * filter. If $richedit is set true htmlspecialchars(), through esc_textarea(),
+ * will be run on the content, converting special characters to HTML entities.
  *
  * @since 0.71
  *
@@ -1123,10 +1123,10 @@ function force_balance_tags( $text ) {
  * @param bool $richedit Whether the $content should pass through htmlspecialchars(). Default false.
  * @return string The text after the filter (and possibly htmlspecialchars()) has been run.
  */
-function format_to_edit($content, $richedit = false) {
-	$content = apply_filters('format_to_edit', $content);
-	if (! $richedit )
-		$content = esc_textarea($content);
+function format_to_edit( $content, $richedit = false ) {
+	$content = apply_filters( 'format_to_edit', $content );
+	if ( ! $richedit )
+		$content = esc_textarea( $content );
 	return $content;
 }
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/user.php b/wp-includes/user.php
index 2816b23db0..a13628467a 100644
--- a/wp-includes/user.php
+++ b/wp-includes/user.php
@@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ function sanitize_user_field($field, $value, $user_id, $context) {
 		}
 
 		if ( 'description' == $field )
-			$value = esc_textarea( $value );
+			$value = esc_html( $value ); // textarea_escaped?
 		else
 			$value = esc_attr($value);
 	} else if ( 'db' == $context ) {