Revert Qt regex and use UTF-16 to UCS-4 index map for all highlighting

novelwriter/text/patterns.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import re
 
 from novelwriter import CONFIG
-from novelwriter.common import compact, uniqueCompact, utf16CharMap
+from novelwriter.common import compact, uniqueCompact
 from novelwriter.constants import nwRegEx, nwUnicode
 
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ class DialogParser:
 
         return
 
-    def __call__(self, text: str, wideChar: bool = False) -> list[tuple[int, int]]:
+    def __call__(self, text: str) -> list[tuple[int, int]]:
         """Caller wrapper for dialogue processing."""
         temp: list[int] = []
         result: list[tuple[int, int]] = []
@@ -224,8 +224,4 @@ class DialogParser:
                         result.append((start, pos))
                         start = None
 
-                if wideChar:
-                    posMap = utf16CharMap(text)
-                    result = [(posMap[s], posMap[p]) for s, p in result]
-
         return result