diff --git a/modules/src/string/bts2str.c b/modules/src/string/bts2str.c
index 749f89ef4..0403f21ae 100644
--- a/modules/src/string/bts2str.c
+++ b/modules/src/string/bts2str.c
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ bts2str(b, n, s)
 	register char *f = b, *t = s;
 
 	while (n-- > 0) {
-		if (is_print(*f))
+		if (is_print(*f)) {
+			if (*f == '\\') *t++ = *f;
 			*t++ = *f++;
-		else {
+		} else {
 			*t++ = '\\';
 			*t++ = ((*f >> 6) & 03) + '0';
 			*t++ = ((*f >> 3) & 07) + '0';
diff --git a/modules/src/string/string.3 b/modules/src/string/string.3
index 62b2f1d77..0e0284020 100644
--- a/modules/src/string/string.3
+++ b/modules/src/string/string.3
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ E.g., the row of 2 bytes
 .RE
 is turned into the string consisting of the following characters
 .RS
-\&'\e\e' '0' '0' '0' '\e\e' 'n' '\e0'
+\&'\e' '0' '0' '0' '\e' 'n' '\e0'
 .RE
 The latter string could be represented in C as "\e\e000\e\en".
 .PP