A * or a ? in a wildcard pattern is allowed to match any character, including newlines. When converting a wildcard pattern to a PCRE, * and ? were converted to ., which by default does _not_ match over newlines (/s is necessary). There isn't a metacharacter that matches everything, so either we modify the returned pattern to enable dot-matches-all (for instance, by wrapping the returned expression in (?s:...)), or use a character class that includes everything. Picking this last approach for simplicity. Change-Id: I86703f654e3414783427c4c8e0bb018885b42e54 Fixes: QTBUG-113676 Pick-to: 6.5 Reviewed-by: Samuel Gaist <samuel.gaist@idiap.ch> Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>