diff --git a/ietf/tests.py b/ietf/tests.py
index 84579d348..bc4e866e2 100644
--- a/ietf/tests.py
+++ b/ietf/tests.py
@@ -76,12 +76,6 @@ def filetext(filename):
     file.close()
     return chunk
 
-def filetime(name):
-    if os.path.exists(name):
-        return os.stat(name)[stat.ST_MTIME]
-    else:
-        return 0
-
 class UrlTestCase(TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         from django.test.client import Client
diff --git a/ietf/utils/soup2text.py b/ietf/utils/soup2text.py
index 3e7a50af0..f93de65f3 100755
--- a/ietf/utils/soup2text.py
+++ b/ietf/utils/soup2text.py
@@ -98,8 +98,10 @@ class TextSoup(BeautifulSoup):
         return str
 
 def soup2text(html):
+    # Line ending normalization
+    html = html.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n")
     # some preprocessing to handle common pathological cases
-    html = re.sub("<br */?>[ \t\r\n]*(<br */?>)+", "<p/>", html)
+    html = re.sub("<br */?>[ \t\n]*(<br */?>)+", "<p/>", html)
     soup = TextSoup(html)
     return str(soup)