diff --git a/stdx/d/lexer.d b/stdx/d/lexer.d
index 91f7146..a179b1f 100644
--- a/stdx/d/lexer.d
+++ b/stdx/d/lexer.d
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ public struct DLexer
 				lexEscapeSequence();
 			}
 			else
-				range.popFront();
+				popFrontWhitespaceAware();
 		}
 		IdType type = tok!"stringLiteral";
 		lexStringSuffix(type);