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+# encoding: utf8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.mark.xfail
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('text', ["aaabbb@ccc.com\nThank you!"])
+def test_issue859(en_tokenizer, text):
+    """Test that no extra space is added in doc.text method."""
+    doc = en_tokenizer(text)
+    assert ' ' not in doc.text
+    assert doc.text == text