diff --git a/templatetags/__init__.py b/templatetags/__init__.py
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diff --git a/templatetags/asset_templatetags.py b/templatetags/asset_templatetags.py
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+from django import template
+from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
+from django.utils.safestring import SafeData, mark_safe
+from django.utils.text import normalize_newlines
+from django.utils.html import escape
+
+register = template.Library()
+
+
+@register.filter(is_safe=True, needs_autoescape=True)
+@stringfilter
+def linebreaksn(value, autoescape=True):
+    """
+    Convert all newlines in a piece of plain text to jQuery line breaks
+    (`\n`).
+    """
+    autoescape = autoescape and not isinstance(value, SafeData)
+    value = normalize_newlines(value)
+    if autoescape:
+        value = escape(value)
+    return mark_safe(value.replace('\n', '\\n'))