diff --git a/squirrel/sqlexer.cpp b/squirrel/sqlexer.cpp
index 8811210..51158ba 100644
--- a/squirrel/sqlexer.cpp
+++ b/squirrel/sqlexer.cpp
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ SQInteger SQLexer::ReadString(SQInteger ndelim,bool verbatim)
 #if WCHAR_SIZE == 2
                         AddUTF16(scstrtoul(temp, &stemp, 16));
 #else
-                        ADD_CHAR((SQChar)scstrtoul(temp, &stemp, 16));
+                        APPEND_CHAR((SQChar)scstrtoul(temp, &stemp, 16));
 #endif
 #else
                         AddUTF8(scstrtoul(temp, &stemp, 16));