diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 04e87e3..b5e5127 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -794,17 +794,14 @@
 def replace_stdout():
     """Set stdout encoder error handler to backslashreplace (as stderr error
     handler) to avoid UnicodeEncodeError when printing a traceback"""
-    if os.name == "nt":
-        # Replace sys.stdout breaks the stdout newlines on Windows: issue #8533
-        return
-
     import atexit
 
     stdout = sys.stdout
     sys.stdout = open(stdout.fileno(), 'w',
         encoding=stdout.encoding,
         errors="backslashreplace",
-        closefd=False)
+        closefd=False,
+        newline='\n')
 
     def restore_stdout():
         sys.stdout.close()