diff --git a/lib/coffeescript/coffeescript.js b/lib/coffeescript/coffeescript.js
index ea938c2980..81e443608c 100644
--- a/lib/coffeescript/coffeescript.js
+++ b/lib/coffeescript/coffeescript.js
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
   // on Node.js/V8, or to run CoffeeScript directly in the browser. This module
   // contains the main entry functions for tokenizing, parsing, and compiling
   // source CoffeeScript into JavaScript.
-  var FILE_EXTENSIONS, Lexer, SourceMap, base64encode, checkShebangLine, compile, formatSourcePosition, getSourceMap, helpers, lexer, packageJson, parser, registerCompiled, sourceMaps, sources, withPrettyErrors,
+  var FILE_EXTENSIONS, LINEBREAK, Lexer, SourceMap, base64encode, checkShebangLine, compile, formatSourcePosition, getSourceMap, helpers, lexer, packageJson, parser, registerCompiled, sourceMaps, sources, withPrettyErrors,
     indexOf = [].indexOf;
 
-  ({Lexer} = require('./lexer'));
+  ({Lexer, LINEBREAK} = require('./lexer'));
 
   ({parser} = require('./parser'));
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
     // `clean` function in the lexer).
     if (options.ast) {
       nodes.allCommentTokens = helpers.extractAllCommentTokens(tokens);
-      sourceCodeNumberOfLines = (code.match(/\r?\n/g) || '').length + 1;
+      sourceCodeNumberOfLines = (code.match(LINEBREAK) || []).length + 1;
       sourceCodeLastLine = /.*$/.exec(code)[0];
       ast = nodes.ast(options);
       range = [0, code.length];
diff --git a/lib/coffeescript/lexer.js b/lib/coffeescript/lexer.js
index 6f6c9e3a5d..4077b7d537 100644
--- a/lib/coffeescript/lexer.js
+++ b/lib/coffeescript/lexer.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   // where locationData is {first_line, first_column, last_line, last_column, last_line_exclusive, last_column_exclusive}, which is a
   // format that can be fed directly into [Jison](https://github.com/zaach/jison).  These
   // are read by jison in the `parser.lexer` function defined in coffeescript.coffee.
-  var BOM, BOOL, CALLABLE, CODE, COFFEE_ALIASES, COFFEE_ALIAS_MAP, COFFEE_KEYWORDS, COMMENT, COMPARABLE_LEFT_SIDE, COMPARE, COMPOUND_ASSIGN, HERECOMMENT_ILLEGAL, HEREDOC_DOUBLE, HEREDOC_INDENT, HEREDOC_SINGLE, HEREGEX, HEREGEX_COMMENT, HERE_JSTOKEN, IDENTIFIER, INDENTABLE_CLOSERS, INDEXABLE, INSIDE_JSX, INVERSES, JSTOKEN, JSX_ATTRIBUTE, JSX_FRAGMENT_IDENTIFIER, JSX_IDENTIFIER, JSX_IDENTIFIER_PART, JSX_INTERPOLATION, JS_KEYWORDS, LINE_BREAK, LINE_CONTINUER, Lexer, MATH, MULTI_DENT, NOT_REGEX, NUMBER, OPERATOR, POSSIBLY_DIVISION, REGEX, REGEX_FLAGS, REGEX_ILLEGAL, REGEX_INVALID_ESCAPE, RELATION, RESERVED, Rewriter, SHIFT, STRICT_PROSCRIBED, STRING_DOUBLE, STRING_INVALID_ESCAPE, STRING_SINGLE, STRING_START, TRAILING_SPACES, UNARY, UNARY_MATH, UNFINISHED, VALID_FLAGS, WHITESPACE, addTokenData, attachCommentsToNode, compact, count, flatten, invertLiterate, isForFrom, isUnassignable, key, locationDataToString, merge, parseNumber, repeat, replaceUnicodeCodePointEscapes, starts, throwSyntaxError,
+  var BOM, BOOL, CALLABLE, CODE, COFFEE_ALIASES, COFFEE_ALIAS_MAP, COFFEE_KEYWORDS, COMMENT, COMPARABLE_LEFT_SIDE, COMPARE, COMPOUND_ASSIGN, HERECOMMENT_ILLEGAL, HEREDOC_DOUBLE, HEREDOC_INDENT, HEREDOC_SINGLE, HEREGEX, HEREGEX_COMMENT, HERE_JSTOKEN, IDENTIFIER, INDENTABLE_CLOSERS, INDEXABLE, INSIDE_JSX, INVERSES, JSTOKEN, JSX_ATTRIBUTE, JSX_FRAGMENT_IDENTIFIER, JSX_IDENTIFIER, JSX_IDENTIFIER_PART, JSX_INTERPOLATION, JS_KEYWORDS, LINEBREAK, LINE_BREAK, LINE_CONTINUER, Lexer, MATH, MULTI_DENT, NOT_REGEX, NUMBER, OPERATOR, POSSIBLY_DIVISION, REGEX, REGEX_FLAGS, REGEX_ILLEGAL, REGEX_INVALID_ESCAPE, RELATION, RESERVED, Rewriter, SHIFT, STRICT_PROSCRIBED, STRING_DOUBLE, STRING_INVALID_ESCAPE, STRING_SINGLE, STRING_START, TRAILING_SPACES, UNARY, UNARY_MATH, UNFINISHED, VALID_FLAGS, WHITESPACE, addTokenData, attachCommentsToNode, compact, count, flatten, invertLiterate, isForFrom, isUnassignable, key, locationDataToString, merge, parseNumber, repeat, replaceUnicodeCodePointEscapes, starts, throwSyntaxError,
     indexOf = [].indexOf,
     slice = [].slice;
 
@@ -1532,10 +1532,10 @@
       } else {
         string = this.chunk.slice(0, +(offset - 1) + 1 || 9e9);
       }
-      lineCount = count(string, '\n');
+      lineCount = (string.match(LINEBREAK) || []).length;
       column = this.chunkColumn;
       if (lineCount > 0) {
-        ref = string.split('\n'), [lastLine] = slice.call(ref, -1);
+        ref = string.split(LINEBREAK), [lastLine] = slice.call(ref, -1);
         column = lastLine.length;
         previousLinesCompensation = this.getLocationDataCompensation(this.chunkOffset, this.chunkOffset + offset - column);
         if (previousLinesCompensation < 0) {
@@ -1808,6 +1808,8 @@
 
   WHITESPACE = /^[^\n\S]+/;
 
+  exports.LINEBREAK = LINEBREAK = /\r\n|[\r\n\u2028\u2029]/ug;
+
   COMMENT = /^(\s*)###([^#][\s\S]*?)(?:###([^\n\S]*)|###$)|^((?:\s*#(?!##[^#]).*)+)/;
 
   CODE = /^[-=]>/;
diff --git a/src/coffeescript.coffee b/src/coffeescript.coffee
index 6cc9e07b25..bc7fc3eeb3 100644
--- a/src/coffeescript.coffee
+++ b/src/coffeescript.coffee
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # contains the main entry functions for tokenizing, parsing, and compiling
 # source CoffeeScript into JavaScript.
 
-{Lexer}       = require './lexer'
+{Lexer, LINEBREAK} = require './lexer'
 {parser}      = require './parser'
 helpers       = require './helpers'
 SourceMap     = require './sourcemap'
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ exports.compile = compile = withPrettyErrors (code, options = {}) ->
   # `clean` function in the lexer).
   if options.ast
     nodes.allCommentTokens = helpers.extractAllCommentTokens tokens
-    sourceCodeNumberOfLines = (code.match(/\r?\n/g) or '').length + 1
+    sourceCodeNumberOfLines = (code.match(LINEBREAK) or []).length + 1
     sourceCodeLastLine = /.*$/.exec(code)[0] # `.*` matches all but line break characters.
     ast = nodes.ast options
     range = [0, code.length]
diff --git a/src/lexer.coffee b/src/lexer.coffee
index 8c9f68ceb6..d5420b8d1a 100644
--- a/src/lexer.coffee
+++ b/src/lexer.coffee
@@ -1056,11 +1056,11 @@ exports.Lexer = class Lexer
     else
       string = @chunk[..offset-1]
 
-    lineCount = count string, '\n'
+    lineCount = (string.match(LINEBREAK) or []).length
 
     column = @chunkColumn
     if lineCount > 0
-      [..., lastLine] = string.split '\n'
+      [..., lastLine] = string.split LINEBREAK
       column = lastLine.length
       previousLinesCompensation = @getLocationDataCompensation @chunkOffset, @chunkOffset + offset - column
       # Don't recompensate for initially inserted newline.
@@ -1318,6 +1318,8 @@ OPERATOR   = /// ^ (
 
 WHITESPACE = /^[^\n\S]+/
 
+exports.LINEBREAK = LINEBREAK = /\r\n|[\r\n\u2028\u2029]/ug
+
 COMMENT    = /^(\s*)###([^#][\s\S]*?)(?:###([^\n\S]*)|###$)|^((?:\s*#(?!##[^#]).*)+)/
 
 CODE       = /^[-=]>/