diff --git a/lib/parse.js b/lib/parse.js
index 0e269ab7..95a9f776 100644
--- a/lib/parse.js
+++ b/lib/parse.js
@@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ function tokenizer($TEXT, filename, html5_comments) {
     };
 
     function skip_whitespace() {
-        while (WHITESPACE_CHARS(peek()))
+        var ch;
+        while (WHITESPACE_CHARS(ch = peek()) || ch == "\u2028" || ch == "\u2029")
             next();
     };