diff --git a/doc/bugs/table_can_not_deal_with_Chinese_.mdwn b/doc/bugs/table_can_not_deal_with_Chinese_.mdwn
index 5c2b0b2ae..92be2b636 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/table_can_not_deal_with_Chinese_.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/table_can_not_deal_with_Chinese_.mdwn
@@ -97,3 +97,17 @@ I've hit this bug with an inline-table and 3.20190228-1 (so: patch applied), wit
     I (HB1), 70 (PB1), 5 (PB50)     Dune    O       ✓"""]]
 
 I'm going to attempt to work around it by moving to an external CSV. ­— [[Jon]]
+
+> What version of Text::CSV (Debian: `libtext-csv-perl`) are you using?
+> What version of Text::CSV::XS (Debian: `libtext-csv-xs-perl`) are you
+> using, if any?
+>
+> I could't reproduce this with `libtext-csv-perl_2.00-1` and
+> `libtext-csv-xs-perl_1.39-1`, assuming that the whitespace in
+> `delimiter="..."` was meant to be a literal tab character, and that
+> the data row has literal tabs before Dune, before O and before ✓.
+>
+> It would be great if you could modify `t/table.t` to include a failing
+> test-case, and push it to your github fork or something, so I can apply
+> it without having to guess precisely what the whitespace should be.
+> --[[smcv]]
diff --git a/t/table.t b/t/table.t
index d7e9e6ff0..a7bbc06bf 100755
--- a/t/table.t
+++ b/t/table.t
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Key       | Value
 ASCII     | hello
 Not ASCII | ¬
 """]]');
+write_old_file("jon.mdwn",
+'(See doc/bugs/table_can_not_deal_with_Chinese.mdwn)
+
+[[!table class=fullwidth_table delimiter="	" data="""
+Number	Title	Own?	Read?
+I (HB1), 70 (PB1), 5 (PB50)	Dune	O	✓"""]]');
 
 ok(! system(@command));
 ok(! system(@command, "--refresh"));
@@ -60,6 +66,10 @@ like($blob, qr{<td>\s*Not ASCII\s*</td>.*<td>\s*¬\s*</td>}s);
 SKIP: {
 	skip "Text::CSV unavailable", 0 unless eval q{use Text::CSV; 1};
 
+	$blob = readfile("t/tmp/out/jon.html");
+	like($blob, qr{<th>\s*Number\s*</th>\s*<th>\s*Title\s*</th>\s*<th>\s*Own\?\s*</th>\s*<th>\s*Read\?\s*</th>}s);
+	like($blob, qr{<td>\s*I \(HB1\), 70 \(PB1\), 5 \(PB50\)\s*</td>\s*<td>\s*Dune\s*</td>\s*<td>\s*O\s*</td>\s*<td>\s*✓\s*</td>}s);
+
 	$blob = readfile("t/tmp/out/csv.html");
 	like($blob, qr{<th>\s*Key\s*</th>.*<th>\s*Value\s*</th>}s);
 	like($blob, qr{<td>\s*ASCII\s*</td>.*<td>\s*hello\s*</td>}s);