diff --git a/WysiwygPlugin/data/System/WysiwygPlugin.txt b/WysiwygPlugin/data/System/WysiwygPlugin.txt
index 80a9244415..7a3f9ba41f 100644
--- a/WysiwygPlugin/data/System/WysiwygPlugin.txt
+++ b/WysiwygPlugin/data/System/WysiwygPlugin.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-%META:TOPICINFO{author="ProjectContributor" comment="" date="1480177564" format="1.1" version="1"}%
+%META:TOPICINFO{author="ProjectContributor" comment="" date="1482155911" format="1.1" version="1"}%
 %META:TOPICPARENT{name="Plugins"}%
 ---+!! Wysiwyg Plugin
 <!--
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ Many thanks to the following sponsors for supporting this work:
 |  Copyright | &copy; ILOG 2005 http://www.ilog.fr %BR% \
                &copy; 2008-2015 Foswiki Contributors |
 |  Change History: | |  
-|  1.34   (26 Nov 2016) | Released with Foswiki 2.1.3 Foswikitask:Item14078: Wysiwyg merges horizontal rules (---) into a preceeding list and looses the TML markup. |
+|  1.34   (26 Nov 2016) | Released with Foswiki 2.1.3 Foswikitask:Item14078: Wysiwyg merges horizontal rules (---) into a preceeding list and looses the TML markup.<br />\
+                          Foswikitask:Item14253: WysiwygPlugin inserts extra spaces in front of square bracket links. |
 |  1.33   (08 Apr 2016) | Released with Foswiki 2.1.1 Foswikitask:Item13960: Editor fails to preserve alignment of cells containing "0".<br/>\
                           Foswikitask:Item13957: Fix rendering of empty "indent" lines<br/>\
                           Foswikitask:Item13958: Don't remove empty lines between two indent blocks. |
@@ -279,4 +280,4 @@ Many thanks to the following sponsors for supporting this work:
 %META:FIELD{name="Support" title="Support" value="http://foswiki.org/Support/%25$ROOTMODULE%25"}%
 %META:FIELD{name="Version" title="Version" value="%25$VERSION%25"}%
 %META:FIELD{name="Repository" title="Repository" value="https://github.com/foswiki/distro"}%
-%META:FILEATTACHMENT{name="wikiringlogo20x20.png" attr="h" comment="" date="1480177564" size="1343" user="ProjectContributor" version="1"}%
+%META:FILEATTACHMENT{name="wikiringlogo20x20.png" attr="h" comment="" date="1482155911" size="1343" user="ProjectContributor" version="1"}%
diff --git a/WysiwygPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/HTML2TML/Node.pm b/WysiwygPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/HTML2TML/Node.pm
index c316203227..b52207c806 100644
--- a/WysiwygPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/HTML2TML/Node.pm
+++ b/WysiwygPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/WysiwygPlugin/HTML2TML/Node.pm
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ sub _handleA {
 
         #print STDERR "TEXT ($text) HREF ($href)\n";
         if ( $text eq $href ) {
-            return ( 0, $WC::CHECKw . '[' . $nop . '[' . $href . ']]' );
+            return ( 0, '[' . $nop . '[' . $href . ']]' );
         }
 
         # we must quote square brackets in [[...][...]] notation
@@ -1543,8 +1543,7 @@ sub _handleA {
         $href =~ s/[[]/%5B/g;
         $href =~ s/[]]/%5D/g;
 
-        return ( 0,
-            $WC::CHECKw . '[' . $nop . '[' . $href . '][' . $text . ']]' );
+        return ( 0, '[' . $nop . '[' . $href . '][' . $text . ']]' );
     }
     elsif ( $this->{attrs}->{name} ) {
 
diff --git a/WysiwygPlugin/test/unit/WysiwygPlugin/TranslatorTests.pm b/WysiwygPlugin/test/unit/WysiwygPlugin/TranslatorTests.pm
index 61db4dfbb0..abf8ec0385 100644
--- a/WysiwygPlugin/test/unit/WysiwygPlugin/TranslatorTests.pm
+++ b/WysiwygPlugin/test/unit/WysiwygPlugin/TranslatorTests.pm
@@ -1276,6 +1276,8 @@ EVERYWHERE
         name => 'Item14253LinkSpaces',
         tml  => <<"HERE",
 Text "[[WebHome][This is a link]]" Follows
+
+More "[[WebHome]]" Follows
 HERE
     },
     {