diff --git a/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_as_raw_string/expected_symbol_table.txt b/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_in_literal/expected_symbol_table.txt
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rename from test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_as_raw_string/expected_symbol_table.txt
rename to test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_in_literal/expected_symbol_table.txt
diff --git a/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_as_raw_string/meta_model.py b/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_in_literal/meta_model.py
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rename from test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_as_raw_string/meta_model.py
rename to test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_in_literal/meta_model.py
diff --git a/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_outside_literal/expected_symbol_table.txt b/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_outside_literal/expected_symbol_table.txt
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index 000000000..ed295e2f3
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diff --git a/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_outside_literal/meta_model.py b/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_outside_literal/meta_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d0e7e6fb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_data/intermediate/expected/documentation/docstring_with_special_characters_outside_literal/meta_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# We test for ``\x09`` and other special characters, and make sure they are represented
+# adequately in the string dump of the symbol table.
+
+
+class Non_empty_XML_serializable_string(str, DBC):
+    r"""
+    Represent a string with at least one character.
+
+    The string should also be serializable to XML, which is the background for
+    the following constraint.
+
+    :constraint AASd-130:
+
+        An attribute with data type "string" shall consist of these characters only:
+        ^[\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\u00010000-\u0010FFFF]*$.
+    """
+
+
+__version__ = "dummy"
+__xml_namespace__ = "https://dummy.com"
diff --git a/tests/intermediate/test_translate.py b/tests/intermediate/test_translate.py
index 99a2b47e7..9d63dba43 100644
--- a/tests/intermediate/test_translate.py
+++ b/tests/intermediate/test_translate.py
@@ -241,11 +241,24 @@ def test_cases(self) -> None:
                 symbol_table_str = intermediate.dump(symbol_table)
 
                 if tests.common.RERECORD:
-                    expected_symbol_table_pth.write_text(
-                        symbol_table_str, encoding="utf-8"
-                    )
+                    # NOTE (mristin, 2023-11-07):
+                    # We have to write the bytes since Git considers too long text
+                    # files to be binaries. This is problematic when we re-record
+                    # on Windows and Linux due to the different line endings.
+                    # Therefore, we remove here carriage returns (``\r``) so that
+                    # we have the same representation on both operating systems.
+
+                    symbol_table_bytes = symbol_table_str.encode(
+                        "utf-8", errors="strict"
+                    ).replace(b"\r", b"")
+
+                    expected_symbol_table_pth.write_bytes(symbol_table_bytes)
                 else:
                     try:
+                        # NOTE (mristin, 2023-11-07):
+                        # We assume that Python will automatically represent new lines
+                        # as ``\n`` so that it matches ``symbol_table_bytes`` above.
+
                         expected_symbol_table_str = expected_symbol_table_pth.read_text(
                             encoding="utf-8"
                         )