autoload/lsp/lspserver.vim | 5 ++++-

diff --git a/autoload/lsp/lspserver.vim b/autoload/lsp/lspserver.vim
index 3ef58dce10aa1679dae1368642521eb15cdda0e0..11c4afa753e16ef74fa67324b4025baf38fa04f2 100644
--- a/autoload/lsp/lspserver.vim
+++ b/autoload/lsp/lspserver.vim
@@ -1451,12 +1451,15 @@   endif
 
   var symInfo: list<dict<any>> = reply.result
 
-  symInfo->map((_, sym) => {
+  if lspserver.needOffsetEncoding
+    # Decode the position encoding in all the symbol locations
+    symInfo->map((_, sym) => {
       if sym->has_key('location')
 	lspserver.decodeLocation(sym.location)
       endif
       return sym
     })
+  endif
 
   if firstCall && symInfo->len() == 1
     # If there is only one symbol, then jump to the symbol location