This seems to be a longtime problem involving the
Visual editor (
TinyMCE) and qTranslate:
qTranslate trimming of <p> and <br/> Jun 2010 to
Apr 2012Probably related (see also Changelogs @ Wordpress Codex):
Content Duplication Bug (Dec 2011 to Apr 2012), where Qian Qin tries to understand the bug.
WP 3.3.1 & qTranslate 2.5.28 - problems with page formattingHTML Code Reformatted by Visual Editor (wordpress.org/support 8 months ago)
Tiles wrote:I can confirm this behaviour. This is introduced with WP3.3 and the newest version of Qtranslate. I went back to Wordpress 3.2 because of this problem. I even made a short video to document the bug. ...
A workaround seems to be that you never update the page in the visual tab, but the html tab. As described in this short flashvideo. Better solution would be a bugfix from Quian Qin though. I hope he reads this thread

@Tiles: Does this mean you have now WP 3.2.1 and qTranslate 2.5.28 working perfectly without this bug? I have to evaluate if this is necessary also for a site of I admin (I use WP 3.3.1 and qT 2.5.28).
Hope also that we have a actual and working version of WP/qT shortly. This is a major problem! And WP 3.3.2 and 3.4 RC3 is out.