ASP.NET MVC Html.Encode - New lines

Question

Html.Encode seems to simply call HttpUtility.HtmlEncode to replace a few html specific characters with their escape sequences.

However this

Answer 1

    /// 

    /// Returns html string with new lines as br tags
    /// 
    public static MvcHtmlString ConvertNewLinesToBr(this HtmlHelper html, string text)
    {
        return  new MvcHtmlString(html.Encode(text).Replace(Environment.NewLine, "
"));
    }