diff --git a/src/Edit.c b/src/Edit.c
index da5d8487d..096c29697 100644
--- a/src/Edit.c
+++ b/src/Edit.c
@@ -96,10 +96,19 @@ static const char *const s_pUnicodeRegEx = "(\\\\[uU|xX]([0-9a-fA-F]){4}|\\\\[xX
 //                                       "(?:[^\\s()<>]+|\\(([^\\s()<>]+|(\\([^\\s()<>]+\\)))*\\))+"
 //                                       "(?:\\(([^\\s()<>]+|(\\([^\\s()<>]+\\)))*\\)|[^\\s`!()\\[\\]{};:'\".,<>?«»“”‘’]))";
 
-// pretty fast:
+// --- pretty fast ---
+// https://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html
+// \p{L} :  any kind of letter from any language
+// \p{N} :  any kind of numeric character in any script
+// \p{S} :  math symbols, currency signs, dingbats, box-drawing characters, etc.
+
+//#define HYPLNK_REGEX_VALID_CDPT "a-zA-Z0-9\\u00A0-\\uD7FF\\uF900-\\uFDCF\\uFDF0-\\uFFEF+&@#/%=~_|$"
+
+#define HYPLNK_REGEX_VALID_CDPT "\\p{L}\\p{N}\\p{S}+&@#/%=~_|$"
+
 static const char *const s_pUrlRegEx = "\\b(?:(?:https?|ftp|file)://|www\\.|ftp\\.)"
-                                       "(?:\\([-a-zA-Z0-9\\u00A0-\\uD7FF\\uF900-\\uFDCF\\uFDF0-\\uFFEF+&@#/%=~_|$?!:,.]*\\)|[-a-zA-Z0-9\\u00A0-\\uD7FF\\uF900-\\uFDCF\\uFDF0-\\uFFEF+&@#/%=~_|$?!:,.])*"
-                                       "(?:\\([-a-zA-Z0-9\\u00A0-\\uD7FF\\uF900-\\uFDCF\\uFDF0-\\uFFEF+&@#/%=~_|$?!:,.]*\\)|[a-zA-Z0-9\\u00A0-\\uD7FF\\uF900-\\uFDCF\\uFDF0-\\uFFEF+&@#/%=~_|$])";
+                                       "(?:\\([-" HYPLNK_REGEX_VALID_CDPT "?!:,.]*\\)|[-" HYPLNK_REGEX_VALID_CDPT "?!:,.])*"
+                                       "(?:\\([-" HYPLNK_REGEX_VALID_CDPT "?!:,.]*\\)|[" HYPLNK_REGEX_VALID_CDPT "])";
 
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