diff --git a/coverage/tomlconfig.py b/coverage/tomlconfig.py
index 203192c93..392f390d3 100644
--- a/coverage/tomlconfig.py
+++ b/coverage/tomlconfig.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def read(self, filenames):
         filename = os.fspath(filenames)
 
         try:
-            with open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as fp:
+            with open(filename, encoding='utf-8', newline='') as fp:
                 toml_text = fp.read()
         except OSError:
             return []