diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RSTextBrowser.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RSTextBrowser.cpp
index 5e0237d0f..930c506ac 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RSTextBrowser.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RSTextBrowser.cpp
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ RSTextBrowser::RSTextBrowser(QWidget *parent) :
 	mImageBlockWidget = NULL;
 	mLinkClickActive = true;
 
+	highliter = new RsSyntaxHighlighter(this);
+
 	connect(this, SIGNAL(anchorClicked(QUrl)), this, SLOT(linkClicked(QUrl)));
 }
 
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RSTextBrowser.h b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RSTextBrowser.h
index 945dfbeaa..47fbd5d9b 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RSTextBrowser.h
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RSTextBrowser.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #define RSTEXTBROWSER_H
 
 #include <QTextBrowser>
+#include "util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.h"
 
 class RSImageBlockWidget;
 
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ private:
 	bool mShowImages;
 	RSImageBlockWidget *mImageBlockWidget;
 	bool mLinkClickActive;
+	RsSyntaxHighlighter *highliter;
 };
 
 #endif // RSTEXTBROWSER_H
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/retroshare-gui.pro b/retroshare-gui/src/retroshare-gui.pro
index 32dc37b2c..5f421702d 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/retroshare-gui.pro
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/retroshare-gui.pro
@@ -523,7 +523,8 @@ HEADERS +=  rshare.h \
             gui/groups/CreateGroup.h \
             gui/GetStartedDialog.h \
     gui/settings/WebuiPage.h \
-    gui/statistics/BWGraph.h
+    gui/statistics/BWGraph.h \
+    util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.h
 
 #            gui/ForumsDialog.h \
 #            gui/forums/ForumDetails.h \
@@ -871,7 +872,8 @@ SOURCES +=  main.cpp \
             gui/statistics/StatisticsWindow.cpp \
             gui/statistics/BwCtrlWindow.cpp \
             gui/statistics/RttStatistics.cpp \
-            gui/statistics/BWGraph.cpp
+            gui/statistics/BWGraph.cpp \
+    util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.cpp
 
 #            gui/ForumsDialog.cpp \
 #            gui/forums/ForumDetails.cpp \
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a7c39ae72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#include "RsSyntaxHighlighter.h"
+
+RsSyntaxHighlighter::RsSyntaxHighlighter(QTextEdit *parent)
+	: QSyntaxHighlighter(parent)
+{
+	quotationFormat.setForeground(QColor(120,153,34));
+}
+
+void RsSyntaxHighlighter::highlightBlock(const QString &text)
+{
+	QRegExp endl("[\\r\\n\\x2028]"); //Usually 0x2028 cahracter is used for newline, no idea why
+	int index = 0;
+	QStringList lines = text.split(endl);
+	foreach (const QString &line, lines) {
+		if(line.trimmed().startsWith('>')) {
+			setFormat(index, line.length(), quotationFormat);
+		}
+		index += line.length() + 1;
+	}
+	//Make it work with the compact chat style
+	if(lines.length() > 0){
+		int i = lines[0].indexOf(": >");
+		if(i != -1) {
+			setFormat(i+2, lines[0].length()-i-2, quotationFormat);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+//Dumping the raw unicode string into the console in Base64 encoding
+/*
+		QByteArray uniline;
+		const QChar* qca = line.unicode();
+		for(int i=0; qca[i]!='\0' ;++i)
+		{
+			uniline.append(qca[i].row());
+			uniline.append(qca[i].cell());
+		}
+		std::cout << "Line: " << uniline.toBase64().toStdString() << std::endl;
+ */
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.h b/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..43ea0e511
--- /dev/null
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.h
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#ifndef RSSYNTAXHIGHLIGHTER_H
+#define RSSYNTAXHIGHLIGHTER_H
+
+#include <QObject>
+#include <QSyntaxHighlighter>
+#include <QTextEdit>
+
+class RsSyntaxHighlighter : public QSyntaxHighlighter
+{
+	Q_OBJECT
+
+public:
+	RsSyntaxHighlighter(QTextEdit *parent = 0);
+
+protected:
+	void highlightBlock(const QString &text) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;
+
+private:
+	QTextCharFormat quotationFormat;
+
+signals:
+
+public slots:
+};
+
+#endif // RSSYNTAXHIGHLIGHTER_H