diff --git a/terminator b/terminator
index 2ec600b3..93d6661c 100755
--- a/terminator
+++ b/terminator
@@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ APP_VERSION = '0.9'
 import os, platform, sys, string, time, math
 from optparse import OptionParser
 
-import gettext
-gettext.install (APP_NAME)
+try:
+  import gettext
+  gettext.install (APP_NAME)
+except:
+  def _ (text):
+    return text
 
 # import unix-lib
 import pwd
@@ -136,21 +140,7 @@ class TerminatorTerm:
     self._vte.add_events (gtk.gdk.ENTER_NOTIFY_MASK)
     self._vte.connect ("enter_notify_event", self.on_vte_notify_enter)
 
-    self.matches['full_uri'] = self._vte.match_add ('''[[:<:]](news:|telnet:|nntp:|file:/|https?:|ftps?:|webcal:)//([-A-Za-z0-9]+(:[-A-Za-z0-9,?;.:/!%$^*&~"#']+)?@)?[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\"])?[[:>:]]/?''')
-    if self.matches['full_uri'] == -1:
-      self.matches['full_uri'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<(news:|telnet:|nntp:|file:/|https?:|ftps?:|webcal:)//([-A-Za-z0-9]+(:[-A-Za-z0-9,?;.:/!%$^*&~"#']+)?@)?[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\"])?\>/?''')
-
-    self.matches['addr_only'] = self._vte.match_add ('''[[:<:]](www|ftp)[-A-Za-z0-9]*\.[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\"])?[[:>:]]/?''')
-    if self.matches['addr_only'] == -1:
-      self.matches['addr_only'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<(www|ftp)[-A-Za-z0-9]*\.[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\"])?\>/?''')
-
-    self.matches['email'] = self._vte.match_add ('''[[:<:]](mailto:)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)+[[:>:]]''')
-    if self.matches['email'] == -1:
-      self.matches['email'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<(mailto:)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)+\>''')
-
-    self.matches['nntp'] = self._vte.match_add ('''[[:<:]]news:[-A-Z\^_a-z{|}~!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9;:=?`]+@[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?[[:>:]]''')
-    if self.matches['nntp'] == -1:
-      self.matches['nntp'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<news:[-A-Z\^_a-z{|}~!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9;:=?`]+@[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?\>''')
+    self.add_matches()
 
     env_proxy = os.getenv ('http_proxy')
     if not env_proxy:
@@ -158,6 +148,26 @@ class TerminatorTerm:
 
     self.spawn_child ()
 
+  def add_matches (self, lboundry="[[:<:]]", rboundry="[[:>:]]"):
+    userchars = "-A-Za-z0-9"
+    passchars = "-A-Za-z0-9,?;.:/!%$^*&~\"#'"
+    hostchars = "-A-Za-z0-9"
+    pathchars = "-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%"
+    schemes   = "(news:|telnet:|nntp:|file:/|https?:|ftps?:|webcal:)"
+    user      = "[" + userchars + "]+(:[" + passchars + "]+)?"
+    urlpath   = "/[" + pathchars + "]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\\\"]"
+    
+    self.matches['full_uri'] = self._vte.match_add(lboundry + schemes + "//(" + user + "@)?[" + hostchars  +".]+(:[0-9]+)?(" + urlpath + ")?" + rboundry + "/?")
+
+    # FreeBSD works with [[:<:]], Linux works with \<
+    if self.matches['full_uri'] == -1:
+      if lboundry != "\\<":
+        self.add_matches(lboundry = "\\<", rboundry = "\\>")
+    else:
+      self.matches['addr_only'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + "(www|ftp)[" + hostchars + "]*\.[" + hostchars + ".]+(:[0-9]+)?(" + urlpath + ")?" + rboundry + "/?")
+      self.matches['email'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + "(mailto:)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)+" + rboundry)
+      self.matches['nntp'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + '''news:[-A-Z\^_a-z{|}~!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9;:=?`]+@[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?''' + rboundry)
+
   def spawn_child (self, event=None):
     update_records = self.conf.update_records
     login = self.conf.login_shell