diff --git a/Lib/gettext.py b/Lib/gettext.py
index 533be3dbac3..8ff0a80ab6d 100644
--- a/Lib/gettext.py
+++ b/Lib/gettext.py
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ def _parse(self, fp):
             if mlen == 0:
                 # Catalog description
                 lastk = k = None
-                for b_item in tmsg.split(os.linesep.encode("ascii")):
+                for b_item in tmsg.split('\n'.encode("ascii")):
                     item = str(b_item).strip()
                     if not item:
                         continue
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gettext.py b/Lib/test/test_gettext.py
index a32fa27921f..12a657cb783 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_gettext.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gettext.py
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ def setUp(self):
 
     def test_weird_metadata(self):
         info = self.t.info()
+        self.assertEqual(len(info), 9)
         self.assertEqual(info['last-translator'],
            'John Doe <jdoe@example.com>\nJane Foobar <jfoobar@example.com>')