diff --git a/xlsx.js b/xlsx.js
index 6bca3c673..bc0809a33 100644
--- a/xlsx.js
+++ b/xlsx.js
@@ -1441,8 +1441,7 @@ if(has_buf) {
 			if(ww !== 0) { out[k++] = ww&255; out[k++] = ww>>>8; ww = 0; }
 			out[k++] = w%256; out[k++] = w>>>8;
 		}
-		out.length = k;
-		return out.toString('ucs2');
+		return out.slice(0,k).toString('ucs2');
 	};
 	var corpus = "foo bar baz\u00e2\u0098\u0083\u00f0\u009f\u008d\u00a3";
 	if(utf8read(corpus) == utf8readb(corpus)) utf8read = utf8readb;
@@ -12151,7 +12150,7 @@ var XmlNode = (function () {
     return this;
   }
 
-  var APOS = "'"; QUOTE = '"'
+  var APOS = "'"; var QUOTE = '"'
   var ESCAPED_QUOTE = {  }
   ESCAPED_QUOTE[QUOTE] = '"'
   ESCAPED_QUOTE[APOS] = '''