diff --git a/src/plugins/bineditor/bineditorwidget.cpp b/src/plugins/bineditor/bineditorwidget.cpp
index f0fd2377927..756bad3488a 100644
--- a/src/plugins/bineditor/bineditorwidget.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/bineditor/bineditorwidget.cpp
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ using namespace Core;
 namespace BinEditor {
 namespace Internal {
 
-const QChar MidpointChar = QLatin1Char(0xB7);
+const QChar MidpointChar(u'\u00B7');
 
 static QByteArray calculateHexPattern(const QByteArray &pattern)
 {