diff --git a/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/psi/impl/PyStringLiteralExpressionImpl.java b/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/psi/impl/PyStringLiteralExpressionImpl.java
index 9402b873e5a7..5bc50dd269b8 100644
--- a/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/psi/impl/PyStringLiteralExpressionImpl.java
+++ b/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/psi/impl/PyStringLiteralExpressionImpl.java
@@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ public class PyStringLiteralExpressionImpl extends PyElementImpl implements PySt
     public String getValue() {
       return myValue;
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+      return String.format("DecodedFragmentImpl(%s, \"%s\")", myRange, myValue);
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/spellchecker/PythonSpellcheckerStrategy.java b/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/spellchecker/PythonSpellcheckerStrategy.java
index 4a0a59d15c1f..5d6033541294 100644
--- a/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/spellchecker/PythonSpellcheckerStrategy.java
+++ b/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/spellchecker/PythonSpellcheckerStrategy.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import com.jetbrains.python.PyTokenTypes;
 import com.jetbrains.python.inspections.PyStringFormatParser;
 import com.jetbrains.python.psi.PyBinaryExpression;
 import com.jetbrains.python.psi.PyStringLiteralExpression;
-import com.jetbrains.python.psi.impl.PyStringLiteralExpressionImpl;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 
 import java.util.List;
@@ -41,9 +40,11 @@ public class PythonSpellcheckerStrategy extends SpellcheckingStrategy {
       Splitter splitter = PlainTextSplitter.getInstance();
       String text = element.getText();
       if (text.indexOf('\\') >= 0) {
-        MyTextRangeConsumer textRangeConsumer = new MyTextRangeConsumer(element, consumer);
-        ((PyStringLiteralExpressionImpl) element).iterateCharacterRanges(textRangeConsumer);
-        textRangeConsumer.processCurrentToken();   // process last token
+        for (PyStringLiteralExpression.DecodedFragment fragment : element.getDecodedFragments()) {
+          final String value = fragment.getValue();
+          consumer.consumeToken(element, value, false, fragment.getEncodedTextRange().getStartOffset(), TextRange.allOf(value),
+                                PlainTextSplitter.getInstance());
+        }
       }
       else if (text.startsWith("u") || text.startsWith("U") || text.startsWith("r") || text.startsWith("R") ||
           text.startsWith("b") || text.startsWith("B")) {
@@ -57,40 +58,6 @@ public class PythonSpellcheckerStrategy extends SpellcheckingStrategy {
         consumer.consumeToken(element, splitter);
       }
     }
-
-    private static class MyTextRangeConsumer implements PyStringLiteralExpressionImpl.TextRangeConsumer {
-      private final StringBuilder myCurrentToken = new StringBuilder();
-      private final PyStringLiteralExpression myElement;
-      private final TokenConsumer myTokenConsumer;
-      private int myTokenStart;
-
-      public MyTextRangeConsumer(PyStringLiteralExpression element, TokenConsumer tokenConsumer) {
-        myElement = element;
-        myTokenConsumer = tokenConsumer;
-      }
-
-      @Override
-      public boolean process(int startOffset, int endOffset, String value) {
-        if (endOffset == startOffset + 1) {
-          if (myCurrentToken.length() == 0) {
-            myTokenStart = startOffset;
-          }
-          myCurrentToken.append(value);
-        }
-        else {
-          if (myCurrentToken.length() > 0) {
-            processCurrentToken();
-            myCurrentToken.setLength(0);
-          }
-        }
-        return true;
-      }
-
-      private void processCurrentToken() {
-        String token = myCurrentToken.toString();
-        myTokenConsumer.consumeToken(myElement, token, false, myTokenStart, TextRange.allOf(token), PlainTextSplitter.getInstance());
-      }
-    }
   }
 
   private static class FormatStringTokenizer extends Tokenizer<PyStringLiteralExpression> {
diff --git a/python/testData/inspections/spelling/ignoreEscapeSequence.py b/python/testData/inspections/spelling/ignoreEscapeSequence.py
index 3bd99651707d..95e8df407454 100644
--- a/python/testData/inspections/spelling/ignoreEscapeSequence.py
+++ b/python/testData/inspections/spelling/ignoreEscapeSequence.py
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-print "foo\nsomething"
\ No newline at end of file
+print "foo\nsomething"
+print """foo\n<TYPO descr="Typo: In word 'brbrbr'">brbrbr</TYPO>"""