diff --git a/scalameta/tokenizers/shared/src/main/scala/scala/meta/internal/tokenizers/CharArrayReader.scala b/scalameta/tokenizers/shared/src/main/scala/scala/meta/internal/tokenizers/CharArrayReader.scala
index d4946e7d28..68fe6bf2e9 100644
--- a/scalameta/tokenizers/shared/src/main/scala/scala/meta/internal/tokenizers/CharArrayReader.scala
+++ b/scalameta/tokenizers/shared/src/main/scala/scala/meta/internal/tokenizers/CharArrayReader.scala
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ private[meta] case class CharArrayReader private (
     dialect: Dialect,
     reporter: Reporter,
     /** the last read character */
-    var ch: Char = SU,
+    var ch: Int = SU,
     /** The offset one past the last read character */
     var begCharOffset: Int = -1, // included
     var endCharOffset: Int = 0, // excluded
@@ -58,9 +58,21 @@ private[meta] case class CharArrayReader private (
       ch = SU
     } else {
       begCharOffset = endCharOffset
-      val (c, nextOffset) = readUnicodeChar(endCharOffset)
-      ch = c
-      endCharOffset = nextOffset
+      val (hi, hiEnd) = readUnicodeChar(endCharOffset)
+      if (!Character.isHighSurrogate(hi)) {
+        ch = hi
+        endCharOffset = hiEnd
+      } else if (hiEnd >= buf.length)
+        readerError("invalid unicode surrogate pair", at = begCharOffset)
+      else {
+        val (lo, loEnd) = readUnicodeChar(hiEnd)
+        if (!Character.isLowSurrogate(lo))
+          readerError("invalid unicode surrogate pair", at = begCharOffset)
+        else {
+          ch = Character.toCodePoint(hi, lo)
+          endCharOffset = loEnd
+        }
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/scalameta/tokenizers/shared/src/main/scala/scala/meta/internal/tokenizers/LegacyScanner.scala b/scalameta/tokenizers/shared/src/main/scala/scala/meta/internal/tokenizers/LegacyScanner.scala
index 35651e2adf..5e4986a1ff 100644
--- a/scalameta/tokenizers/shared/src/main/scala/scala/meta/internal/tokenizers/LegacyScanner.scala
+++ b/scalameta/tokenizers/shared/src/main/scala/scala/meta/internal/tokenizers/LegacyScanner.scala
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ class LegacyScanner(input: Input, dialect: Dialect) {
   /**
    * append Unicode character to "cbuf" buffer
    */
-  private def putChar(c: Char): Unit = {
-    cbuf.append(c)
+  private def putChar(c: Int): Unit = {
+    cbuf.appendCodePoint(c)
   }
 
   /**
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ class LegacyScanner(input: Input, dialect: Dialect) {
     (ch: @switch) match {
       case ' ' | '\t' | CR | LF | FF =>
         token = WHITESPACE
-        strVal = ch.toString
+        strVal = ch.toChar.toString
         nextChar()
       // nextToken()
       case
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ class LegacyScanner(input: Input, dialect: Dialect) {
       val start = begCharOffset
       nextChar()
       if ('0' <= ch && ch <= '7') {
-        val leadch: Char = ch
+        val leadch = ch
         var oct: Int = digit2int(ch, 8)
         nextChar()
         if ('0' <= ch && ch <= '7') {
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ class LegacyScanner(input: Input, dialect: Dialect) {
         val alt = if (oct == LF) "\\n" else "\\u%04x" format oct
         def msg(what: String) = s"Octal escape literals are $what, use $alt instead."
         deprecationWarning(msg("deprecated"), at = start)
-        putChar(oct.toChar)
+        putChar(oct)
       } else {
         ch match {
           case 'b' => putChar('\b')
diff --git a/tests/shared/src/test/scala/scala/meta/tests/tokenizers/TokenizerSuite.scala b/tests/shared/src/test/scala/scala/meta/tests/tokenizers/TokenizerSuite.scala
index 4c4ea1ee8e..eac14f811a 100644
--- a/tests/shared/src/test/scala/scala/meta/tests/tokenizers/TokenizerSuite.scala
+++ b/tests/shared/src/test/scala/scala/meta/tests/tokenizers/TokenizerSuite.scala
@@ -1170,7 +1170,23 @@ class TokenizerSuite extends BaseTokenizerSuite {
   test("#3328") {
     val code = "val \\uD835\\uDF11: Double"
     val res = dialects.Scala212(code).tokenize
-    assertEquals(res.toEither.left.get.message, "illegal character '\\ud835'")
+    assertEquals(res.get.toString, code)
+  }
+
+  test("#3328 2") {
+    assertTokenizedAsStructureLines(
+      "val \uD835\uDF11: Double",
+      """
+        |BOF [0..0)
+        |val [0..3)
+        |  [3..4)
+        |\uD835\uDF11 [4..6)
+        |: [6..7)
+        |  [7..8)
+        |Double [8..14)
+        |EOF [14..14)
+        |""".stripMargin
+    )
   }
 
 }