diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 9a41f3c4ef..9d2a711e84 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Improvements 🙌:
 
 Bugfix 🐛:
  - Display name not shown under Settings/General (#1926)
+ - Editing message forgets line breaks and markdown (#1939)
  - Words containing my name should not trigger notifications (#1781)
  - Fix changing language issue
  - Fix FontSize issue (#1483, #1787)
diff --git a/matrix-sdk-android/src/androidTest/java/org/matrix/android/sdk/internal/session/room/send/MarkdownParserTest.kt b/matrix-sdk-android/src/androidTest/java/org/matrix/android/sdk/internal/session/room/send/MarkdownParserTest.kt
index 2be535b16e..3a25b92c2a 100644
--- a/matrix-sdk-android/src/androidTest/java/org/matrix/android/sdk/internal/session/room/send/MarkdownParserTest.kt
+++ b/matrix-sdk-android/src/androidTest/java/org/matrix/android/sdk/internal/session/room/send/MarkdownParserTest.kt
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ import org.matrix.android.sdk.InstrumentedTest
  * It will not be possible to test all combinations. For the moment I add a few tests, then, depending on the problem discovered in the wild,
  * we can add more tests to cover the edge cases.
  * Some tests are suffixed with `_not_passing`, maybe one day we will fix them...
- * Element Web should be used as a reference for expected results, but not always. Especially Element Web add lots of `\n` in the
- * formatted body, which is quite useless.
- * Also Element Web does not provide plain text body when formatted text is provided. The body contains what the user has entered.
+ * Element Web should be used as a reference for expected results, but not always.
+ * Also Element Web does not provide plain text body when formatted text is provided. The body contains what the user has entered. We are doing
+ * the same to be able to edit messages (See #1939)
  * See https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#m-room-message-msgtypes
  */
 @Suppress("SpellCheckingInspection")
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ class MarkdownParserTest : InstrumentedTest {
         )
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun parseBoldNewLines() {
+        testTypeNewLines(
+                name = "bold",
+                markdownPattern = "**",
+                htmlExpectedTag = "strong"
+        )
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun parseItalic() {
         testType(
@@ -90,6 +99,15 @@ class MarkdownParserTest : InstrumentedTest {
         )
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun parseItalicNewLines() {
+        testTypeNewLines(
+                name = "italic",
+                markdownPattern = "*",
+                htmlExpectedTag = "em"
+        )
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun parseItalic2() {
         // Element Web format
@@ -108,6 +126,15 @@ class MarkdownParserTest : InstrumentedTest {
         )
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun parseStrikeNewLines() {
+        testTypeNewLines(
+                name = "strike",
+                markdownPattern = "~~",
+                htmlExpectedTag = "del"
+        )
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun parseCode() {
         testType(
@@ -117,6 +144,15 @@ class MarkdownParserTest : InstrumentedTest {
         )
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun parseCodeNewLines() {
+        testTypeNewLines(
+                name = "code",
+                markdownPattern = "`",
+                htmlExpectedTag = "code"
+        )
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun parseCode2() {
         testType(
@@ -126,6 +162,15 @@ class MarkdownParserTest : InstrumentedTest {
         )
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun parseCode2NewLines() {
+        testTypeNewLines(
+                name = "code",
+                markdownPattern = "``",
+                htmlExpectedTag = "code"
+        )
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun parseCode3() {
         testType(
@@ -135,6 +180,15 @@ class MarkdownParserTest : InstrumentedTest {
         )
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun parseCode3NewLines() {
+        testTypeNewLines(
+                name = "code",
+                markdownPattern = "```",
+                htmlExpectedTag = "code"
+        )
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun parseUnorderedList() {
         "- item1".let { markdownParser.parse(it).expect(it, "<ul><li>item1</li></ul>") }
@@ -164,7 +218,7 @@ class MarkdownParserTest : InstrumentedTest {
 
     @Test
     fun parseQuote_not_passing() {
-        "> quoted\nline2".let { markdownParser.parse(it).expect(it, "<blockquote><p>quoted<br/>line2</p></blockquote>") }
+        "> quoted\nline2".let { markdownParser.parse(it).expect(it, "<blockquote><p>quoted<br />line2</p></blockquote>") }
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -278,6 +332,26 @@ class MarkdownParserTest : InstrumentedTest {
                 }
     }
 
+    private fun testTypeNewLines(name: String,
+                                 markdownPattern: String,
+                                 htmlExpectedTag: String) {
+        // With new line inside the block
+        "$markdownPattern$name\n$name$markdownPattern"
+                .let {
+                    markdownParser.parse(it)
+                            .expect(expectedText = it,
+                                    expectedFormattedText = "<$htmlExpectedTag>$name<br />$name</$htmlExpectedTag>")
+                }
+
+        // With new line between two blocks
+        "$markdownPattern$name$markdownPattern\n$markdownPattern$name$markdownPattern"
+                .let {
+                    markdownParser.parse(it)
+                            .expect(expectedText = it,
+                                    expectedFormattedText = "<$htmlExpectedTag>$name</$htmlExpectedTag><$htmlExpectedTag>$name</$htmlExpectedTag>")
+                }
+    }
+
     private fun TextContent.expect(expectedText: String, expectedFormattedText: String?) {
         assertEquals("TextContent are not identical", TextContent(expectedText, expectedFormattedText), this)
     }
diff --git a/matrix-sdk-android/src/main/java/org/matrix/android/sdk/internal/session/room/send/MarkdownParser.kt b/matrix-sdk-android/src/main/java/org/matrix/android/sdk/internal/session/room/send/MarkdownParser.kt
index 6ae3df187a..b493897d8a 100644
--- a/matrix-sdk-android/src/main/java/org/matrix/android/sdk/internal/session/room/send/MarkdownParser.kt
+++ b/matrix-sdk-android/src/main/java/org/matrix/android/sdk/internal/session/room/send/MarkdownParser.kt
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ internal class MarkdownParser @Inject constructor(
                 // Remove extra space before and after the content
                 .trim()
                 // There is no need to include new line in an html-like source
+                // But new line can be in embedded code block, so do not remove them
                 .replace("\n", "")
     }
 }