diff --git a/src/charset.c b/src/charset.c
index 5436bb4..8f058bd 100644
--- a/src/charset.c
+++ b/src/charset.c
@@ -1898,7 +1898,7 @@
 {
     for ( ; *p; ++p)
 	if (rem_backslash(p))
-	    STRCPY(p, p + 1);
+	    mch_memmove(p, p + 1, STRLEN(p));
 }
 
 /*