diff --git a/pkg/strcase/strcase.go b/pkg/strcase/strcase.go
index b1b1b327a..45726cfd3 100644
--- a/pkg/strcase/strcase.go
+++ b/pkg/strcase/strcase.go
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ package strcase
 import (
 	"strings"
 	"unicode"
-	"unicode/utf8"
 )
 
 // Delimited converts a string to delimited.lower.case, here using `.` as delimiter.
@@ -41,23 +40,10 @@ func convert(s string, _case int, d rune) string {
 	n := strings.Builder{}
 	n.Grow(len(s) + 2) // Allow adding at least 2 delimiters without another allocation.
 
-	var pos int
-	var prevRune int32
+	var prevRune rune
 
-	for _, r := range s[pos:] {
-		n.WriteRune(unicode.To(_case, r))
-
-		pos += utf8.RuneLen(r)
-		prevRune = r
-
-		// This loop just extracts the first rune of the string,
-		// without needing to allocate a new slice of runes as
-		// range iterates over the runes of the string.
-		break
-	}
-
-	for _, r := range s[pos:] {
-		if unicode.IsUpper(r) && (unicode.IsNumber(prevRune) || unicode.IsLower(prevRune)) {
+	for i, r := range s {
+		if i > 0 && unicode.IsUpper(r) && (unicode.IsNumber(prevRune) || unicode.IsLower(prevRune)) {
 			n.WriteRune(d)
 		}
 
diff --git a/pkg/strcase/strcase_test.go b/pkg/strcase/strcase_test.go
index 3ab4d056c..e689f0ae6 100644
--- a/pkg/strcase/strcase_test.go
+++ b/pkg/strcase/strcase_test.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ var tests = [][]string{
 	{"icinga💯points", "icinga💯points"},
 	{"😃🙃😀", "😃🙃😀"},
 	{"こんにちは", "こんにちは"},
-	{"\xff\xfe\xfd", "�"},
+	{"\xff\xfe\xfd", "���"},
 }
 
 func TestSnake(t *testing.T) {