diff --git a/autotests/texthandlertest.cpp b/autotests/texthandlertest.cpp
index 2d2eed630..88111d4ff 100644
--- a/autotests/texthandlertest.cpp
+++ b/autotests/texthandlertest.cpp
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ private Q_SLOTS:
     void receiveRichtextIn();
     void receiveRichMxcUrl();
     void receiveRichPlainUrl();
+
+    void receiveLineSeparator();
 };
 
 #ifdef QUOTIENT_07
@@ -498,5 +500,13 @@ void TextHandlerTest::receiveRichPlainUrl()
     QCOMPARE(testTextHandler.handleRecieveRichText(Qt::RichText), testOutputStringMxId);
 }
 
+void TextHandlerTest::receiveLineSeparator()
+{
+    auto text = QStringLiteral("foo\u2028bar");
+    TextHandler textHandler;
+    textHandler.setData(text);
+    QCOMPARE(textHandler.handleRecievePlainText(Qt::PlainText, true), QStringLiteral("foo bar"));
+}
+
 QTEST_MAIN(TextHandlerTest)
 #include "texthandlertest.moc"
diff --git a/src/texthandler.cpp b/src/texthandler.cpp
index 25a9f4eed..23a1dcaa6 100644
--- a/src/texthandler.cpp
+++ b/src/texthandler.cpp
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ QString TextHandler::handleRecievePlainText(Qt::TextFormat inputFormat, const bo
         m_dataBuffer.replace(QStringLiteral("<br />\n"), QStringLiteral(" "));
         m_dataBuffer.replace(QStringLiteral("<br />"), QStringLiteral(" "));
         m_dataBuffer.replace(u'\n', QStringLiteral(" "));
+        m_dataBuffer.replace(u'\u2028', " ");
     }
 
     // Strip all tags/attributes except code blocks which will be escaped.