diff --git a/tests/strings/unicode.cpp b/tests/strings/unicode.cpp
index 1fb8b358bc..ada1605310 100644
--- a/tests/strings/unicode.cpp
+++ b/tests/strings/unicode.cpp
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ void UnicodeTestCase::ConversionUTF16()
     // terminate the string, this exposed a bug in our conversion code which
     // got confused in this case
     size_t len;
-    conv.cMB2WC("\x01\0\0B\0C\0" /* A macron BC */, 6, &len);
+    conv.cMB2WC("\x01\0\0B\0C" /* A macron BC */, 6, &len);
     CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL( 3, len );
 
     // Another one: verify that the length of the resulting string is computed
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ void UnicodeTestCase::ConversionUTF32()
     }
 
     size_t len;
-    conv.cMB2WC("\0\0\x01\0\0\0\0B\0\0\0C\0" /* A macron BC */, 12, &len);
+    conv.cMB2WC("\0\0\x01\0\0\0\0B\0\0\0C" /* A macron BC */, 12, &len);
     CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL( 3, len );
 }