lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm | 1 +

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
index 9be163aa70c13b39eb19c326458886ef1a9f75c8..68f895460821569e9ba67a01902af6248e9692c5 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ );
 
 sub ascii_html {
 	my ($s) = @_;
+	$s =~ s/\r\n/\n/sg; # fixup bad line endings
 	$s =~ s/([<>&'"])/$xhtml_map{$1}/ge;
 	$enc_ascii->encode($s, Encode::HTMLCREF);
 }