diff --git a/LinkTitles.body.php b/LinkTitles.body.php
index 5d712ac..fe13c7d 100755
--- a/LinkTitles.body.php
+++ b/LinkTitles.body.php
@@ -184,15 +184,19 @@
 					// see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10672286
 					$arr = preg_split( $delimiter, $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );
 
+					// Escape certain special characters in the page title to prevent
+					// regexp compilation errors
+					$escapedTitle = preg_quote(LinkTitles::$safeTitle, '/');
+
 					// Depending on the global configuration setting $wgCapitalLinks,
 					// the title has to be searched for either in a strictly case-sensitive
 					// way, or in a 'fuzzy' way where the first letter of the title may
 					// be either case.
 					if ( $wgCapitalLinks ) {
-						$searchTerm = '((?i)' . LinkTitles::$safeTitle[0] . '(?-i)' . 
-							substr(LinkTitles::$safeTitle, 1) . ')';
+						$searchTerm = '((?i)' . $escapedTitle[0] . '(?-i)' . 
+							substr($escapedTitle, 1) . ')';
 					}	else {
-						$searchTerm = '(' . LinkTitles::$safeTitle . ')';
+						$searchTerm = '(' . $escapedTitle . ')';
 					}
 
 					for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $arr ); $i+=2 ) {
@@ -218,7 +222,7 @@
 						for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $arr ); $i+=2 ) {
 							// even indexes will point to text that is not enclosed by brackets
 							$arr[$i] = preg_replace_callback( '/(?<![\:\.\@\/\?\&])' .
-								$wordStartDelim . '(' . LinkTitles::$safeTitle . ')' . 
+								$wordStartDelim . '(' . $escapedTitle . ')' . 
 								$wordEndDelim . '/i', $callBack, $arr[$i], $limit, $count );
 							if (( $limit >= 0 ) && ( $count > 0  )) {
 								break; 
diff --git a/LinkTitles.php b/LinkTitles.php
index f906c8e..1d25626 100755
--- a/LinkTitles.php
+++ b/LinkTitles.php
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     'name'           => 'LinkTitles',
     'author'         => '[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bovender Daniel Kraus]', 
     'url'            => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkTitles',
-    'version'        => '2.2.1',
+    'version'        => '2.2.2',
     'descriptionmsg' => 'linktitles-desc'
     );
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6be9591..670797f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+LinkTitles 2.2.2: 2013-08-09
+* Prevent crashes due to special characters in page titles.
+
 LinkTitles 2.2.1: 2013-07-22
 * Make the extension work with sqlite databases.
 
diff --git a/release/LinkTitles-2.2.2.tar.gz b/release/LinkTitles-2.2.2.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
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