diff --git a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/com/wordnik/swagger/codegen/DefaultCodegen.java b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/com/wordnik/swagger/codegen/DefaultCodegen.java
index bb9dcd9442c..8a5d359e2ee 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/com/wordnik/swagger/codegen/DefaultCodegen.java
+++ b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/com/wordnik/swagger/codegen/DefaultCodegen.java
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public class DefaultCodegen {
   // override with any special text escaping logic
   public String escapeText(String input) {
     if(input != null) {
-      String output = input.replaceAll("\n", " ");
+      String output = input.replaceAll("\n", "\\\\n");
       output = output.replace("\"", "\\\"");
       return output;
     }