diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index b67eca621..bb3bd1ca6 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ Detailed list of changes
 
 - Linux Wayland: Fix animated images not being animated continuously (:iss:`6126`)
 
+- Keyboard input: Fix text not being reported as unicode codepoints for multi-byte characters in the kitty keyboard protocol (:iss:`6167`)
+
 
 0.27.1 [2023-02-07]
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diff --git a/kitty/key_encoding.c b/kitty/key_encoding.c
index 47a54f950..366b39fe6 100644
--- a/kitty/key_encoding.c
+++ b/kitty/key_encoding.c
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ serialize(const EncodingData *data, char *output, const char csi_trailer) {
                 if (first) { P(";%u", codep); first = false; }
                 else P(":%u", codep);
             }
-            state = UTF8_ACCEPT;
             p++;
         }
     }