diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue886.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue886.py
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+# coding: utf8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('text', ["Datum:2014-06-02\nDokument:76467"])
+def test_issue886(en_tokenizer, text):
+    """Test that no extra space is added in doc.text method."""
+    doc = en_tokenizer(text)
+    for token in doc:
+        assert len(token.text) == len(token.text_with_ws)
+        assert text[token.idx] == token.text[0]