Index: gc_core/js/text.js
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--- gc_core/js/text.js
+++ gc_core/js/text.js
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@
 var text = {
     getParagraph: function* (sText) {
         // generator: returns paragraphs of text
         let iStart = 0;
         let iEnd = 0;
-        sText = sText.replace("\r", "");
+        sText = sText.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n");
         while ((iEnd = sText.indexOf("\n", iStart)) !== -1) {
             yield sText.slice(iStart, iEnd);
             iStart = iEnd + 1;
         }
         yield sText.slice(iStart);

Index: gc_core/py/text.py
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--- gc_core/py/text.py
+++ gc_core/py/text.py
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@
 
 
 def getParagraph (sText):
     "generator: returns paragraphs of text"
     iStart = 0
+    sText = sText.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n")
     iEnd = sText.find("\n", iStart)
     while iEnd != -1:
         yield sText[iStart:iEnd]
         iStart = iEnd + 1
         iEnd = sText.find("\n", iStart)