diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/texttomodelmerger.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/texttomodelmerger.cpp
index caeded485cb..515d4043643 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/texttomodelmerger.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/texttomodelmerger.cpp
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ QString deEscape(const QString &value)
     result.replace(QStringLiteral("\\\\"), QStringLiteral("\\"));
     result.replace(QStringLiteral("\\\""), QStringLiteral("\""));
     result.replace(QStringLiteral("\\t"), QStringLiteral("\t"));
-    result.replace(QStringLiteral("\\r"), QStringLiteral("\\\r"));
+    result.replace(QStringLiteral("\\r"), QStringLiteral("\r"));
     result.replace(QStringLiteral("\\n"), QStringLiteral("\n"));
 
     return result;