From ff6b4bcfa7d242f1bbc4678166f34b1ed6326703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Veronica K. B. Olsen" <1619840+vkbo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 20:44:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve the word saparation detection of the spell check
 highlighting

---
 nw/gui/dochighlight.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nw/gui/dochighlight.py b/nw/gui/dochighlight.py
index 4754110d..abf3c122 100644
--- a/nw/gui/dochighlight.py
+++ b/nw/gui/dochighlight.py
@@ -203,9 +203,10 @@ class GuiDocHighlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter):
         # Build a QRegExp for spell checker
         # Include additional characters that the highlighter should
         # consider to be word separators
-        wordSep  = "_+"
+        wordSep  = "_\+"
+        wordSep += nwUnicode.U_ENDASH
         wordSep += nwUnicode.U_EMDASH
-        self.spellRx = QRegularExpression("\\b[^\\s%s]+\\b" % wordSep)
+        self.spellRx = QRegularExpression(r"\b[^\s"+wordSep+r"]+\b")
         self.spellRx.setPatternOptions(QRegularExpression.UseUnicodePropertiesOption)
 
         return True