diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 1d94b4f..4d60f32 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1153,4 +1153,4 @@ testing = ["func-timeout", "jaraco.itertools", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.7.2,<4.0"
-content-hash = "dcea2aee978ec2864760ff7e40d95b57f4c189e88d306bbee285c59ab43a6497"
+content-hash = "eb10082144dd4998be8b75ccab144eb5791d06fedfc0c1b04bf430d3134744fa"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5178496..e11d413 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ regex = "^2022.1.18"
 tqdm = "^4.62.2"
 tomli = { version = "^2.0.1", python = "<3.11" }
 pathspec = "^0.10.0"
-importlib-metadata = "^6.0.0"
 html-void-elements = "^0.1.0"
 html-tag-names = "^0.1.2"
 jsbeautifier = "^1.14.4"
diff --git a/src/djlint/__init__.py b/src/djlint/__init__.py
index 978401c..3c10356 100644
--- a/src/djlint/__init__.py
+++ b/src/djlint/__init__.py
@@ -180,7 +180,6 @@ def main(
             config.stdin = True
             stdin_stream = click.get_text_stream("stdin", encoding="utf8")
             stdin_text = stdin_stream.read()
-
             temp_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
             temp_file.write(str.encode(stdin_text))
             temp_file.seek(0)
diff --git a/src/djlint/reformat.py b/src/djlint/reformat.py
index 5d01dbc..9288f09 100644
--- a/src/djlint/reformat.py
+++ b/src/djlint/reformat.py
@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ from .settings import Config
 
 def reformat_file(config: Config, this_file: Path) -> dict:
     """Reformat html file."""
-    rawcode = this_file.read_text(encoding="utf8")
+    rawcode = this_file.read_bytes().decode("utf8")
 
-    compressed = compress_html(rawcode, config)
+    # naturalize the line breaks
+    compressed = compress_html(("\n").join(rawcode.splitlines()), config)
 
     expanded = expand_html(compressed, config)
 
@@ -33,9 +34,14 @@ def reformat_file(config: Config, this_file: Path) -> dict:
     if config.format_js:
         beautified_code = format_js(beautified_code, config)
 
+    # preserve original line endings
+    line_ending = rawcode.find("\n")
+    if line_ending > -1 and rawcode[max(line_ending - 1, 0)] == "\r":
+        # convert \r?\n to \r\n
+        beautified_code = beautified_code.replace("\r", "").replace("\n", "\r\n")
+
     if config.check is not True or config.stdin is True:
-        # update the file
-        this_file.write_text(beautified_code, encoding="utf8")
+        this_file.write_bytes(beautified_code.encode("utf8"))
 
     out = {
         str(this_file): list(
diff --git a/tests/test_djlint/test_djlint.py b/tests/test_djlint/test_djlint.py
index 2bb5f5a..251713c 100644
--- a/tests/test_djlint/test_djlint.py
+++ b/tests/test_djlint/test_djlint.py
@@ -222,3 +222,18 @@ def test_python_call() -> None:
         )
         assert b"python -m djlint [OPTIONS] SRC ..." in py_sub.stdout
         assert py_sub.returncode == 0
+
+
+def test_line_ending(runner: CliRunner, tmp_file: TextIO) -> None:
+    # write a windows line ending to file
+    text_in = "<div></div>\r\n"
+    with open(tmp_file.name, "w", encoding="utf8", newline="") as windows:
+        windows.write(text_in)
+
+    # make sure line ending was still there
+    assert Path(tmp_file.name).read_bytes().decode("utf8") == text_in
+
+    # check formatting
+    result = runner.invoke(djlint, [tmp_file.name, "--check", "--quiet"])
+
+    assert result.exit_code == 0