diff --git a/Doc/changelog.docu b/Doc/changelog.docu
index 1529d5b8..ff1c2fde 100644
--- a/Doc/changelog.docu
+++ b/Doc/changelog.docu
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 <b>IO</b>
 <ul>
+<li>PLY Reader: Handle nr newlines (Thanks to Christian Feurer for the patch)</li>
 <li>PLY Reader: Fixed binary reader errors in ply reader. (Thanks to Michael Kremer for the patch)</li>
 <li>Throw error when no readers are available (Thanks to Christian Feurer for the patch)</li>
 </ul>
diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
index ecfa83fe..df42756c 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
@@ -1076,6 +1076,10 @@ bool _PLYReader_::can_u_read(std::istream& _is) const {
     std::getline(_is, line);
     trim(line);
 
+    // Handle '\r\n' newlines 
+    const int s = line.size(); 
+    if( s > 0 && line[s - 1] == '\r') line.resize(s - 1); 
+
     //Check if this file is really a ply format
     if (line != "PLY" && line != "ply")
         return false;