Convert line breaks in block quotes?

[rhartmann]

This is more of a question / suggestion.

Consider this Markdown:

> Line1
> Line2
>
> Line3

Line1 and Line2 are separated by a soft line break, and Line2 and Line3 by a hard line break.

GitHub preserves the linebreak and adds <br> to also visually separate the lines:

Line1 Line2

Line3

Both the GFM and CommonMark Specs have this passage in the soft line breaks section, so this behavior is allowed:

A renderer may also provide an option to render soft line breaks as hard line breaks.

Mistune and An Otter Wiki adhere to the spec but don't provide that option:

<blockquote>
<p>Line1
Line2</p>
<p>Line3</p>
</blockquote>

>>> text = """
... > Line1
... > Line2
... >
... > Line3
... """
>>> mistune.html(text)
'<blockquote>\n<p>Line1\nLine2</p>\n<p>Line3</p>\n</blockquote>\n'
>>>

IMHO, An Otter Wiki should have this option. Quotes are a repetition of what was written somewhere else, where line breaks may have been intentional. And in some cases, line breaks might make the difference:

Two cats and a dog? I cannot confirm that Peter has two cats

What do you think?