diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.cpp
index c204932a7..6a191ca2f 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/util/RsSyntaxHighlighter.cpp
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ void RsSyntaxHighlighter::highlightBlock(const QString &text)
 {
 	if (text == "") return;
 
-	QRegularExpression endl("[\\r\\n\\x2028]"); //Usually 0x2028 character is used for newline, no idea why
+	QRegularExpression endl("[\\r\\n\\N{U+2028}]"); //Usually 0x2028 character is used for newline, no idea why
 	int index = 0;
 	QStringList lines = text.split(endl);
 	foreach (const QString &cLine, lines) {