diff --git a/src/harness/harness.ts b/src/harness/harness.ts
index 8c3c29beca2..60a508e8625 100644
--- a/src/harness/harness.ts
+++ b/src/harness/harness.ts
@@ -1052,17 +1052,19 @@ module Harness {
                         case 'newline':
                             if (setting.value.toLowerCase() === 'crlf') {
                                 options.newLine = ts.NewLineKind.CarriageReturnLineFeed;
-                                newLine = setting.value;
                             }
                             else if (setting.value.toLowerCase() === 'lf') {
                                 options.newLine = ts.NewLineKind.LineFeed;
-                                newLine = setting.value;
                             }
                             else {
                                 throw new Error('Unknown option for newLine: ' + setting.value);
                             }
                             break;
 
+                        case 'normalizenewline':
+                            newLine = setting.value;
+                            break;
+
                         case 'comments':
                             options.removeComments = setting.value === 'false';
                             break;
@@ -1504,7 +1506,7 @@ module Harness {
         // List of allowed metadata names
         var fileMetadataNames = ["filename", "comments", "declaration", "module",
             "nolib", "sourcemap", "target", "out", "outdir", "noemithelpers", "noemitonerror",
-            "noimplicitany", "noresolve", "newline", "newlines", "emitbom",
+            "noimplicitany", "noresolve", "newline", "normalizenewline", "emitbom",
             "errortruncation", "usecasesensitivefilenames", "preserveconstenums",
             "includebuiltfile", "suppressimplicitanyindexerrors", "stripinternal",
             "separatecompilation", "inlinesourcemap", "maproot", "sourceroot",
diff --git a/tests/cases/compiler/contextualTyping.ts b/tests/cases/compiler/contextualTyping.ts
index b3dfefdecfb..a50d542343a 100644
--- a/tests/cases/compiler/contextualTyping.ts
+++ b/tests/cases/compiler/contextualTyping.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// @newline: LF
+// @normalizenewline: \n
 // @sourcemap: true
 // DEFAULT INTERFACES
 interface IFoo {