diff --git a/lib/Format/Encoding.h b/lib/Format/Encoding.h
index 766d29274ce66b64199fb91b6934a838c3ad31e0..592d7201a8ac64e2e204918058129e3353bdb864 100644
--- a/lib/Format/Encoding.h
+++ b/lib/Format/Encoding.h
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ inline unsigned getEscapeSequenceLength(StringRef Text) {
         ++I;
       return I;
     }
-    return 2;
+    return 1 + getNumBytesForUTF8(Text[1]);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/unittests/Format/FormatTest.cpp b/unittests/Format/FormatTest.cpp
index b2c5307341d89d71de691dbd3abed65593a98da0..252ae4db3f82e73607f41226bcc447683163971c 100644
--- a/unittests/Format/FormatTest.cpp
+++ b/unittests/Format/FormatTest.cpp
@@ -9555,6 +9555,11 @@ TEST_F(FormatTest, SplitsUTF8Strings) {
             "\"八九十\tqq\"",
             format("\"一\t二 \t三 四 五\t六 \t七 八九十\tqq\"",
                    getLLVMStyleWithColumns(11)));
+
+  // UTF8 character in an escape sequence.
+  EXPECT_EQ("\"aaaaaa\"\n"
+            "\"\\\xC2\x8D\"",
+            format("\"aaaaaa\\\xC2\x8D\"", getLLVMStyleWithColumns(10)));
 }
 
 TEST_F(FormatTest, HandlesDoubleWidthCharsInMultiLineStrings) {