diff --git a/src/vs/editor/common/model/bracketPairsTextModelPart/bracketPairsTree/tokenizer.ts b/src/vs/editor/common/model/bracketPairsTextModelPart/bracketPairsTree/tokenizer.ts
index 0e7381b7677..7cfe9631770 100644
--- a/src/vs/editor/common/model/bracketPairsTextModelPart/bracketPairsTree/tokenizer.ts
+++ b/src/vs/editor/common/model/bracketPairsTextModelPart/bracketPairsTree/tokenizer.ts
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ class NonPeekableTextBufferTokenizer {
 
 				const endOffset = lineTokens.getEndOffset(this.lineTokenOffset);
 				// Is there a bracket token next? Only consume text.
-				if (containsBracketType && isOther && endOffset !== this.lineCharOffset) {
+				if (containsBracketType && isOther && this.lineCharOffset < endOffset) {
 					const languageId = lineTokens.getLanguageId(this.lineTokenOffset);
 					const text = this.line.substring(this.lineCharOffset, endOffset);