diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2b7fe3fb..769d786d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
   to utilize full-screen mode.
 ! Add optional support for the <code>file</code> URI scheme, enable
   by explicitly setting %URI.AllowedSchemes.
+! Add %Core.NormalizeNewlines options to allow turning off newline
+  normalization.
 - Fix improper handling of Internet Explorer conditional comments
   by parser.  Thanks zmonteca for reporting.
 - Fix missing attributes bug when running on Mac Snow Leopard and APC.
diff --git a/configdoc/usage.xml b/configdoc/usage.xml
index b0944479..bd2f1a8a 100644
--- a/configdoc/usage.xml
+++ b/configdoc/usage.xml
@@ -109,10 +109,18 @@
    <line>87</line>
   </file>
  </directive>
- <directive id="Output.Newline">
+ <directive id="Core.NormalizeNewlines">
   <file name="HTMLPurifier/Generator.php">
    <line>101</line>
   </file>
+  <file name="HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php">
+   <line>266</line>
+  </file>
+ </directive>
+ <directive id="Output.Newline">
+  <file name="HTMLPurifier/Generator.php">
+   <line>102</line>
+  </file>
  </directive>
  <directive id="HTML.BlockWrapper">
   <file name="HTMLPurifier/HTMLDefinition.php">
@@ -214,11 +222,6 @@
    <line>48</line>
   </file>
  </directive>
- <directive id="HTML.NewlineNormalization">
-  <file name="HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php">
-   <line>266</line>
-  </file>
- </directive>
  <directive id="Core.ConvertDocumentToFragment">
   <file name="HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php">
    <line>282</line>
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema.ser b/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema.ser
index 528bd0de..978089c6 100644
Binary files a/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema.ser and b/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema.ser differ
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema/Core.NormalizeNewlines.txt b/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema/Core.NormalizeNewlines.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d77f5360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema/Core.NormalizeNewlines.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Core.NormalizeNewlines
+TYPE: bool
+VERSION: 4.2.0
+DEFAULT: true
+--DESCRIPTION--
+<p>
+    Whether or not to normalize newlines to the operating
+    system default.  When <code>false</code>, HTML Purifier
+    will attempt to preserve mixed newline files.
+</p>
+--# vim: et sw=4 sts=4
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema/HTML.NewlineNormalization.txt b/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema/HTML.NewlineNormalization.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 948aea89..00000000
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema/schema/HTML.NewlineNormalization.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-HTML.NewlineNormalization
-TYPE: bool
-VERSION: 4.2.0
-DEFAULT: true
---DESCRIPTION--
-<p>
-    Whether or not to normalize newlines.
-</p>
---# vim: et sw=4 sts=4
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/Generator.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/Generator.php
index f5310361..e6221db7 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/Generator.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/Generator.php
@@ -98,9 +98,11 @@ class HTMLPurifier_Generator
         }
 
         // Normalize newlines to system defined value
-        $nl = $this->config->get('Output.Newline');
-        if ($nl === null) $nl = PHP_EOL;
-        if ($nl !== "\n") $html = str_replace("\n", $nl, $html);
+        if ($this->config->get('Core.NormalizeNewlines')) {
+            $nl = $this->config->get('Output.Newline');
+            if ($nl === null) $nl = PHP_EOL;
+            if ($nl !== "\n") $html = str_replace("\n", $nl, $html);
+        }
         return $html;
     }
 
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php
index db14ebac..325d5c5f 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_Lexer
     public function normalize($html, $config, $context) {
 
         // normalize newlines to \n
-        if ($config->get('HTML.NewlineNormalization')) {
+        if ($config->get('Core.NormalizeNewlines')) {
             $html = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $html);
             $html = str_replace("\r", "\n", $html);
         }
diff --git a/tests/HTMLPurifier/LexerTest.php b/tests/HTMLPurifier/LexerTest.php
index 79d1cf87..da582d15 100644
--- a/tests/HTMLPurifier/LexerTest.php
+++ b/tests/HTMLPurifier/LexerTest.php
@@ -726,18 +726,18 @@ div {}
     }
 
    function test_tokenizeHTML_removeNewline() {
-        $this->config->set('HTML.NewlineNormalization', true);
-        $input = "plain text\r\n";
+        $this->config->set('Core.NormalizeNewlines', true);
+        $input = "plain\rtext\r\n";
         $expect = array(
-            new HTMLPurifier_Token_Text("plain text\n")
+            new HTMLPurifier_Token_Text("plain\ntext\n")
         );
    }
 
    function test_tokenizeHTML_noRemoveNewline() {
-        $this->config->set('HTML.NewlineNormalization', false);
-        $input = "plain text\r\n";
+        $this->config->set('Core.NormalizeNewlines', false);
+        $input = "plain\rtext\r\n";
         $expect = array(
-            new HTMLPurifier_Token_Text("plain text\r\n")
+            new HTMLPurifier_Token_Text("plain\rtext\r\n")
         );
         $this->assertTokenization($input, $expect);
      }