diff --git a/syntax/tag.php b/syntax/tag.php
index c9af244..384e00c 100644
--- a/syntax/tag.php
+++ b/syntax/tag.php
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ function connectTo($mode)
     function handle($match, $state, $pos, Doku_Handler $handler)
     {
         $tags = trim(substr($match, 6, -2));     // strip markup & whitespace
-        $tags = trim($tags, "\xe2\x80\x8b"); // strip word/wordpad breaklines
+        $tags = str_replace("\xe2\x80\x8b", '', $tags); // strip word/wordpad breaklines(U+200b)
         $tags = preg_replace(['/[[:blank:]]+/', '/\s+/'], " ", $tags);    // replace linebreaks and multiple spaces with one space character
         $tags = preg_replace('/[\x00-\x1F\x7F]/u', '', $tags); // strip unprintable ascii code out of utf-8 coded string