diff --git a/Sources/SwiftFormat/PrettyPrint/PrettyPrintBuffer.swift b/Sources/SwiftFormat/PrettyPrint/PrettyPrintBuffer.swift
index 4b02d372..e82b4ed3 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftFormat/PrettyPrint/PrettyPrintBuffer.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftFormat/PrettyPrint/PrettyPrintBuffer.swift
@@ -119,18 +119,21 @@ struct PrettyPrintBuffer {
     consecutiveNewlineCount = 0
     pendingSpaces = 0
 
-    // In case of comments, we may get a multi-line string.
-    // To account for that case, we need to correct the lineNumber count.
-    // The new column is only the position within the last line.
-    let lines = text.split(separator: "\n")
-    lineNumber += lines.count - 1
-    if lines.count > 1 {
-      // in case we have inserted new lines, we need to reset the column
-      column = lines.last?.count ?? 0
-    } else {
-      // in case it is an end of line comment or a single line comment,
-      // we just add to the current column
-      column += lines.last?.count ?? 0
+    guard let lastNewlineIndex = text.lastIndex(of: "\n") else {
+      // In case there's no newline, the string itself is the only line
+      column += text.count
+      return
+    }
+
+    let lastLine = text[lastNewlineIndex...]
+    column += lastLine.count
+
+    // Now count the rest of the lines in a possible multi-line string. We are only interested in '\n' so we can use
+    // the UTF8 view and skip grapheme clustering entirely.
+    for element in text[...lastNewlineIndex].utf8 {
+      if element == UInt8(ascii: "\n") {
+        lineNumber += 1
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/Tests/SwiftFormatTests/PrettyPrint/LineNumbersTests.swift b/Tests/SwiftFormatTests/PrettyPrint/LineNumbersTests.swift
index 1bb58f7a..a8195640 100644
--- a/Tests/SwiftFormatTests/PrettyPrint/LineNumbersTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SwiftFormatTests/PrettyPrint/LineNumbersTests.swift
@@ -81,4 +81,38 @@ final class LineNumbersTests: PrettyPrintTestCase {
       ]
     )
   }
+
+  func testCharacterVsCodepoint() {
+    let input =
+      """
+      let fo = 1  // 🤥
+      
+      """
+
+    assertPrettyPrintEqual(
+      input: input,
+      expected: input,
+      linelength: 16,
+      whitespaceOnly: true,
+      findings: []
+    )
+  }
+
+  func testCharacterVsCodepointMultiline() {
+    let input =
+      #"""
+      /// This is a multiline
+      /// comment that is in 🤥
+      /// fact perfectly sized
+      
+      """#
+
+    assertPrettyPrintEqual(
+      input: input,
+      expected: input,
+      linelength: 25,
+      whitespaceOnly: true,
+      findings: []
+    )
+  }
 }