diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c445a445..d87b632f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
   state, foot was looking at **depressed** modifiers, not
   **effective** modifiers, like it should.
 * Fix crashes after enabling CSD at runtime when `csd.size` is 0.
+* Convert `\r` to `\n` when reading clipboard data
+  (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/752).
 
 
 ### Security
diff --git a/selection.c b/selection.c
index b6bae978..91523d3b 100644
--- a/selection.c
+++ b/selection.c
@@ -1609,6 +1609,11 @@ fdm_receive_timeout(struct fdm *fdm, int fd, int events, void *data)
 static void
 fdm_receive_decoder_plain(struct clipboard_receive *ctx, char *data, size_t size)
 {
+    /* \r -> \n */
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+        if (data[i] == '\r')
+            data[i] = '\n';
+    }
     ctx->cb(data, size, ctx->user);
 }