diff --git a/src/shared/conf-parser.c b/src/shared/conf-parser.c
index 1eccec5..41e8da2 100644
--- a/src/shared/conf-parser.c
+++ b/src/shared/conf-parser.c
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ int config_parse_strv(
                 k = 0;
 
         FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED(w, l, rvalue, state) {
-                n[k] = cunescape_length(w, l);
+                n[k] = strdup(w);
                 if (!n[k]) {
                         r = -ENOMEM;
                         goto fail;