Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since this isn't the original source of this data, it's possible that this happened to the description contents at some point in the past. In which case it wouldn't be trivial to fix.
Correct. I've done no manipulation of the data that has been read in.
The bug is not present in the original LSM data (as I showed in another comment), but is present in the JSON data¹:
{"author":"Manuel.Serrano@inria.fr (Manuel Serrano)","primary-site":"ftp.inria.fr /INRIA/Projects/icsla4048000 bigloo1.3b.tar.Z\n","maintained-by":"Manuel.Serrano@inria.fr","entered-date":"1996-01-01","version":"1.3","keywords":"","original-site":"","description":"Bigloo is both a interpreter and a compiler. It is conformantto IEEE Scheme standard with some extensions from which we can\nsite regular parsing or pattern matching.\n","copying-policy":"Copyleft","platforms":"","alternate-site":"","title":"\"Bigloo, a Scheme to C compiler\""}