diff --git a/src/utils.cpp b/src/utils.cpp
index eabe86adbc..ca2a0c4f5b 100644
--- a/src/utils.cpp
+++ b/src/utils.cpp
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ std::vector<std::string> utils::split_words(const std::string &text)
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 std::vector<std::string> utils::split_lines(const std::string &text)
 {
-  return Tokenizer(text, "\n").as_vector();
+  return Tokenizer(text, "\r\n").as_vector();
 }
 
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------