@@ -100,10 +100,21 @@
                     echo("Bad regular expression in # " + str(aRule[2]))
                     aRule[0] = "(?i)<Grammalecte>"
 
 
 #### Parsing
+
+_zEndOfSentence = re.compile(r'([.?!:;…][ .?!… »”")]*|.$)')
+_zBeginOfParagraph = re.compile(r"^\W*")
+_zEndOfParagraph = re.compile(r"\W*$")
+
+def _getSentenceBoundaries (sText):
+    iStart = _zBeginOfParagraph.match(sText).end()
+    for m in _zEndOfSentence.finditer(sText):
+        yield (iStart, m.end())
+        iStart = m.end()
+
 
 def parse (sText, sCountry="${country_default}", bDebug=False, dOptions=None, bContext=False):
     "analyses the paragraph sText and returns list of errors"
     #sText = unicodedata.normalize("NFC", sText)
     aErrors = None
@@ -139,21 +150,10 @@
                 aErrors.update(errs)
             except:
                 raise
     return aErrors.values() # this is a view (iterable)
 
-
-_zEndOfSentence = re.compile(r'([.?!:;…][ .?!… »”")]*|.$)')
-_zBeginOfParagraph = re.compile(r"^\W*")
-_zEndOfParagraph = re.compile(r"\W*$")
-
-def _getSentenceBoundaries (sText):
-    iStart = _zBeginOfParagraph.match(sText).end()
-    for m in _zEndOfSentence.finditer(sText):
-        yield (iStart, m.end())
-        iStart = m.end()
-
 
 def _proofread (oSentence, s, sx, nOffset, bParagraph, dPriority, sCountry, dOptions, bShowRuleId, bDebug, bContext):
     dErrs = {}
     bParagraphChange = False
     bSentenceChange = False