diff --git a/tools/cmd/hints/marks.go b/tools/cmd/hints/marks.go
index 6ceb41916..d6d10a35b 100644
--- a/tools/cmd/hints/marks.go
+++ b/tools/cmd/hints/marks.go
@@ -322,6 +322,30 @@ func mark(r *regexp.Regexp, post_processors []PostProcessorFunc, group_processor
 
 type ErrNoMatches struct{ Type string }
 
+func adjust_python_offsets(text string, marks []Mark) {
+	// python returns rune based offsets (unicode chars not utf-8 bytes)
+	// this adjustment function assumes the marks are non overlapping
+	bytes := utils.UnsafeStringToBytes(text)
+	char_offset, byte_offset := 0, 0
+
+	adjust := func(x int) (sz int) {
+		x -= char_offset
+		for x > 0 {
+			_, d := utf8.DecodeRune(bytes)
+			sz += d
+			bytes = bytes[d:]
+			x--
+			char_offset++
+		}
+		byte_offset += sz
+		return byte_offset
+	}
+	for i := range marks {
+		mark := &marks[i]
+		mark.Start = adjust(mark.Start)
+		mark.End = adjust(mark.End)
+	}
+}
 func (self *ErrNoMatches) Error() string {
 	none_of := "matches"
 	switch self.Type {
@@ -369,6 +393,7 @@ func find_marks(text string, opts *Options, cli_args ...string) (sanitized_text
 		if err != nil {
 			return "", nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to load output from custom processor %#v with error: %w", opts.CustomizeProcessing, err)
 		}
+		adjust_python_offsets(sanitized_text, ans)
 	} else if opts.Type == "hyperlink" {
 		ans = hyperlinks
 	} else {
diff --git a/tools/cmd/hints/marks_test.go b/tools/cmd/hints/marks_test.go
index 5daf7a1cf..3f5a851b5 100644
--- a/tools/cmd/hints/marks_test.go
+++ b/tools/cmd/hints/marks_test.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ func TestHintMarking(t *testing.T) {
 
 	r := func(text string, url ...string) (marks []Mark) {
 		ptext := convert_text(text, cols)
-		_, marks, _, err := find_marks(ptext, opts, cli_args...)
+		ptext, marks, _, err := find_marks(ptext, opts, cli_args...)
 		if err != nil {
 			var e *ErrNoMatches
 			if len(url) != 0 || !errors.As(err, &e) {
@@ -43,6 +44,12 @@ func TestHintMarking(t *testing.T) {
 		if diff := cmp.Diff(url, actual); diff != "" {
 			t.Fatalf("%#v failed:\n%s", text, diff)
 		}
+		for _, m := range marks {
+			q := strings.NewReplacer("\n", "", "\r", "", "\x00", "").Replace(ptext[m.Start:m.End])
+			if diff := cmp.Diff(m.Text, q); diff != "" {
+				t.Fatalf("Mark start and end dont point to correct offset in text for %#v\n%s", text, diff)
+			}
+		}
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -114,7 +121,7 @@ def mark(text, args, Mark, extra_cli_args, *a):
 `), 0o600)
 	opts.Type = "regex"
 	opts.CustomizeProcessing = simple
-	marks := r("a b", `a`, `b`)
+	marks := r("漢字 b", `漢字`, `b`)
 	if diff := cmp.Diff(marks[0].Groupdict, map[string]any{"idx": float64(0), "args": []any{"extra1"}}); diff != "" {
 		t.Fatalf("Did not get expected groupdict from custom processor:\n%s", diff)
 	}