diff --git a/application/config/config.php b/application/config/config.php
index 8d08a74..cd2ca47 100644
--- a/application/config/config.php
+++ b/application/config/config.php
@@ -327,6 +327,20 @@
 
 /*
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Standardize newlines
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| Determines whether to standardize newline characters in input data,
+| meaning to replace \r\n, \r, \n occurences with the PHP_EOL value.
+|
+| This is particularly useful for portability between UNIX-based OSes,
+| (usually \n) and Windows (\r\n).
+|
+*/
+$config['standardize_newlines'] = TRUE;
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | Global XSS Filtering
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 |
diff --git a/system/core/Input.php b/system/core/Input.php
index f5123fa..ccb70da 100644
--- a/system/core/Input.php
+++ b/system/core/Input.php
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 	protected $_allow_get_array = TRUE;
 
 	/**
-	 * Standartize new lines flag
+	 * Standardize new lines flag
 	 *
 	 * If set to TRUE, then newlines are standardized.
 	 *
@@ -121,9 +121,10 @@
 	{
 		log_message('debug', 'Input Class Initialized');
 
-		$this->_allow_get_array	= (config_item('allow_get_array') === TRUE);
-		$this->_enable_xss	= (config_item('global_xss_filtering') === TRUE);
-		$this->_enable_csrf	= (config_item('csrf_protection') === TRUE);
+		$this->_allow_get_array		= (config_item('allow_get_array') === TRUE);
+		$this->_enable_xss		= (config_item('global_xss_filtering') === TRUE);
+		$this->_enable_csrf		= (config_item('csrf_protection') === TRUE);
+		$this->_sandardize_newlines	= (bool) config_item('standardize_newlines');
 
 		global $SEC;
 		$this->security =& $SEC;
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_cookie.php b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_cookie.php
index dc75d8e..65debcb 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_cookie.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_cookie.php
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@
 	 */
 	public $now;
 
+	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 	/**
 	 * Default userdata keys
 	 *
@@ -185,6 +187,15 @@
 	protected $data_dirty = FALSE;
 
 	/**
+	 * Standardize newlines flag
+	 *
+	 * @var	bool
+	 */
+	protected $_standardize_newlines;
+
+	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Initialize session driver object
 	 *
 	 * @return	void
@@ -209,9 +220,11 @@
 			'sess_time_to_update',
 			'time_reference',
 			'cookie_prefix',
-			'encryption_key'
+			'encryption_key',
 		);
 
+		$this->_standardize_newlines = (bool) $config['standardize_newlines'];
+
 		foreach ($prefs as $key)
 		{
 			$this->$key = isset($this->_parent->params[$key])
@@ -695,6 +708,16 @@
 				? array_intersect_key($this->userdata, $this->defaults)
 				: $this->userdata;
 
+		// The Input class will do this and since we use HMAC verification,
+		// unless we standardize here as well, the hash won't match.
+		if ($this->_standardize_newlines)
+		{
+			foreach (array_keys($this->userdata) as $key)
+			{
+				$this->userdata[$key] = preg_replace('/(?:\r\n|[\r\n])/', PHP_EOL, $this->userdata[$key]);
+			}
+		}
+
 		// Serialize the userdata for the cookie
 		$cookie_data = serialize($cookie_data);
 
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 85cd602..906c303 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
    -  Added support non-HTML error templates for CLI applications.
    -  Added availability checks where usage of dangerous functions like ``eval()`` and ``exec()`` is required.
    -  Added support for changing the file extension of log files using ``$config['log_file_extension']``.
+   -  Added support for turning newline standardization on/off via ``$config['standardize_newlines']``.
 
 -  Helpers
 
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/input.rst b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/input.rst
index b58ed2f..72746c1 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/input.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/input.rst
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
    (and a few other) characters.
 -  Provides XSS (Cross-site Scripting Hacks) filtering. This can be
    enabled globally, or upon request.
--  Standardizes newline characters to \\n(In Windows \\r\\n)
+-  Standardizes newline characters to ``PHP_EOL`` (\\n in UNIX-based OSes,
+   \\r\\n under Windows). This is configurable.
 
 XSS Filtering
 =============