diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index a88fc35df915f955d9209cbc6d802b26ac9f3fef..855b89bbb1bcfa55346554832148309e4517f145 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-11-20  Kenichi Handa  <handa@etl.go.jp>
+
+	* alloc.c (make_string): Fix previous change.  Be sure to make
+	unibyte string correctly.
+
 2000-11-19  Gerd Moellmann  <gerd@gnu.org>
 
 	* window.c (Fwindow_list): Change parameter list to be XEmacs
diff --git a/src/alloc.c b/src/alloc.c
index 625dc14720fa4dfc629f243b83ffc7f92353bf85..bf93f6705b45f7e34a38e9c90635bce9327b945a 100644
--- a/src/alloc.c
+++ b/src/alloc.c
@@ -1701,12 +1701,12 @@ make_string (contents, nbytes)
   int nchars, multibyte_nbytes;
 
   parse_str_as_multibyte (contents, nbytes, &nchars, &multibyte_nbytes);
-  val = make_uninit_multibyte_string (nchars, nbytes);
-  bcopy (contents, XSTRING (val)->data, nbytes);
   if (nbytes == nchars || nbytes != multibyte_nbytes)
     /* CONTENTS contains no multibyte sequences or contains an invalid
        multibyte sequence.  We must make unibyte string.  */
-    SET_STRING_BYTES (XSTRING (val), -1);
+    val = make_unibyte_string (contents, nbytes);
+  else
+    val = make_multibyte_string (contents, nchars, nbytes);
   return val;
 }