diff --git a/src/gui/text/qtextmarkdownwriter.cpp b/src/gui/text/qtextmarkdownwriter.cpp
index 2e23dfcd944..7a6a43d2057 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qtextmarkdownwriter.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qtextmarkdownwriter.cpp
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static int adjacentBackticksCount(const QString &s)
 static void maybeEscapeFirstChar(QString &s)
 {
     static const QRegularExpression numericListRe(uR"(\d+([\.)])\s)"_s);
-    static const QLatin1StringView specialFirstCharacters("#*+-");
+    constexpr auto specialFirstCharacters = "#*+-"_L1;
 
     QString sTrimmed = s.trimmed();
     if (sTrimmed.isEmpty())