diff --git a/core/text/scanner/scanner.odin b/core/text/scanner/scanner.odin
index 77e3a1b84..46bb643e7 100644
--- a/core/text/scanner/scanner.odin
+++ b/core/text/scanner/scanner.odin
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ scan_string :: proc(s: ^Scanner, quote: rune) -> (n: int) {
 			switch ch {
 			case quote, 'a', 'b', 'e', 'f', 'n', 'r', 't', 'v', '\\':
 				ch = advance(s)
-			case '0'..='7': ch = scan_digits(s, advance(s), 8, 3)
+			case '0'..='7': ch = scan_digits(s, advance(s), 8, 2)
 			case 'x':       ch = scan_digits(s, advance(s), 16, 2)
 			case 'u':       ch = scan_digits(s, advance(s), 16, 4)
 			case 'U':       ch = scan_digits(s, advance(s), 16, 8)