From 9b42e2d5dda713beec02f47ec69e66fc6db4eed7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ines Montani <ines@ines.io>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 02:05:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Experiment with escaping hyphens

---
 spacy/lang/char_classes.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/lang/char_classes.py b/spacy/lang/char_classes.py
index cb2e817d5..4a5ee6d67 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/char_classes.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/char_classes.py
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ _punct = (
     r"… …… , : ; \! \? ¿ ؟ ¡ \( \) \[ \] \{ \} < > _ # \* & 。 ？ ！ ， 、 ； ： ～ · । ، ؛ ٪"
 )
 _quotes = r'\' " ” “ ` ‘ ´ ’ ‚ , „ » « 「 」 『 』 （ ） 〔 〕 【 】 《 》 〈 〉'
-_hyphens = "- – — -- --- —— ~"
+_hyphens = r"\- – — \-\- \-\-\- —— ~"
 
 # Various symbols like dingbats, but also emoji
 # Details: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/So