diff --git a/internal/literals/literals.go b/internal/literals/literals.go
index 8f3b722..a24c7c0 100644
--- a/internal/literals/literals.go
+++ b/internal/literals/literals.go
@@ -106,16 +106,16 @@ func Obfuscate(file *ast.File, info *types.Info, fset *token.FileSet, ignoreObj
 				}
 				var value byte
 				if lit.Kind == token.CHAR {
-					val, _, _, err := strconv.UnquoteChar(lit.Value, '\'')
+					val, err := strconv.Unquote(lit.Value)
 					if err != nil {
-						return true
+						panic(fmt.Sprintf("cannot unquote character: %v", err))
 					}
 
-					value = byte(val)
+					value = byte(val[0])
 				} else {
 					val, err := strconv.ParseUint(lit.Value, 0, 8)
 					if err != nil {
-						return true
+						panic(fmt.Sprintf("cannot parse integer: %v", err))
 					}
 
 					value = byte(val)
diff --git a/testdata/scripts/literals.txt b/testdata/scripts/literals.txt
index 97dc18d..0e2b39c 100644
--- a/testdata/scripts/literals.txt
+++ b/testdata/scripts/literals.txt
@@ -225,9 +225,12 @@ func constantTest() {
 	const impType = imported.ImportedType(3)
 }
 
-// TODO: this only tests, that we don't break byte slices 
-// it was verified manually that these actually get obfuscated,
-// however we should add regression tests 
+// TODO: This only tests that we don't break byte slices.
+// It was manually verified that they do get obfuscated,
+// The original bytes don't seem to show up in the binary,
+// meaning that we can't test for them via binsubstr.
+// We should figure out a way to test for the byte sequences.
+// For now, we manually tested these when they got added.
 func byteTest() {
 	a := []byte{12, 13}
 	for _, elm := range a {