diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
index b6b218e052..64dcd93f38 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ class HTMLPreProcessor(object):
                 end_rules.append((re.compile(u'(?<=.{%i}[–—])\s*<p>\s*(?=[[a-z\d])' % length), lambda match: ''))
                 end_rules.append(
                     # Un wrap using punctuation
-                    (re.compile(u'(?<=.{%i}([a-z,:)\IA\u00DF]|(?<!\&\w{4});))\s*(?P<ital></(i|b|u)>)?\s*(<p.*?>\s*)+\s*(?=(<(i|b|u)>)?\s*[\w\d$(])' % length, re.UNICODE), wrap_lines),
+                    (re.compile(u'(?<=.{%i}([a-zäëïöüàèìòùáćéíóńśúâêîôûçąężı,:)\IA\u00DF]|(?<!\&\w{4});))\s*(?P<ital></(i|b|u)>)?\s*(<p.*?>\s*)+\s*(?=(<(i|b|u)>)?\s*[\w\d$(])' % length, re.UNICODE), wrap_lines),
                 )
 
         for rule in self.PREPROCESS + start_rules:
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/utils.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/utils.py
index 2faec27b68..f75fe71c82 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/utils.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/utils.py
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ class PreProcessor(object):
             html = dehyphenator(html,'html', length)
             self.log("Done dehyphenating")
             # Unwrap lines using punctation and line length
-            unwrap = re.compile(u"(?<=.{%i}([a-z,:)\IA\u00DF]|(?<!\&\w{4});))\s*</(span|p|div)>\s*(</(p|span|div)>)?\s*(?P<up2threeblanks><(p|span|div)[^>]*>\s*(<(p|span|div)[^>]*>\s*</(span|p|div)>\s*)</(span|p|div)>\s*){0,3}\s*<(span|div|p)[^>]*>\s*(<(span|div|p)[^>]*>)?\s*" % length, re.UNICODE)
+            unwrap = re.compile(u"(?<=.{%i}([a-zäëïöüàèìòùáćéíóńśúâêîôûçąężı,:)\IA\u00DF]|(?<!\&\w{4});))\s*</(span|p|div)>\s*(</(p|span|div)>)?\s*(?P<up2threeblanks><(p|span|div)[^>]*>\s*(<(p|span|div)[^>]*>\s*</(span|p|div)>\s*)</(span|p|div)>\s*){0,3}\s*<(span|div|p)[^>]*>\s*(<(span|div|p)[^>]*>)?\s*" % length, re.UNICODE)
             html = unwrap.sub(' ', html)
             #check any remaining hyphens, but only unwrap if there is a match
             dehyphenator = Dehyphenator()