diff --git a/NativeScript/runtime/Interop.mm b/NativeScript/runtime/Interop.mm
index ac140efa..19671455 100644
--- a/NativeScript/runtime/Interop.mm
+++ b/NativeScript/runtime/Interop.mm
@@ -365,16 +365,13 @@ static bool SnapshotArrayLike(Isolate* isolate, Local<Object> object, Local<v8::
       // Always copy: an external one-byte string's resource (e.g. one made by
       // node_api_create_external_string_latin1) holds Latin-1 with no NUL
       // terminator, so its data can't be handed to native code as a C string.
-      v8::String::Utf8Value utf8Value(isolate, arg);
-      const char* value = strdup(*utf8Value);
-      // The external string only ties the strdup'd buffer's lifetime to the
-      // GC; it is never read as a string. Its length counts the NUL so it is
-      // never zero: V8 disposes a zero-length resource immediately.
       OneByteStringResource* resource =
-          new OneByteStringResource(value, (size_t)utf8Value.length() + 1);
+          OneByteStringResource::NewUtf8Copy(isolate, arg.As<v8::String>());
+      // The external string only ties the copy's lifetime to the GC; it is
+      // never read as a string.
       bool success = v8::String::NewExternalOneByte(isolate, resource).ToLocal(&arg);
       tns::Assert(success, isolate);
-      Interop::SetValue(dest, value);
+      Interop::SetValue(dest, resource->data());
     } else {
       BaseDataWrapper* wrapper = tns::GetValue(isolate, arg);
       if (wrapper == nullptr) {
diff --git a/NativeScript/runtime/OneByteStringResource.cpp b/NativeScript/runtime/OneByteStringResource.cpp
index e10086ca..b8d724e3 100644
--- a/NativeScript/runtime/OneByteStringResource.cpp
+++ b/NativeScript/runtime/OneByteStringResource.cpp
@@ -1,22 +1,35 @@
 #include "OneByteStringResource.h"
 
 #include <cstdlib>
+#include <new>
 
 using namespace v8;
 
 namespace tns {
 
-OneByteStringResource::OneByteStringResource(const char* data, size_t length):
-    data_(data), length_(length) {
+OneByteStringResource* OneByteStringResource::NewUtf8Copy(Isolate* isolate,
+                                                          Local<String> str) {
+  size_t byteLength = str->Utf8LengthV2(isolate);
+  void* block = std::malloc(sizeof(OneByteStringResource) + byteLength + 1);
+  OneByteStringResource* resource =
+      new (block) OneByteStringResource(byteLength + 1);
+  // Same flags as String::Utf8Value.
+  str->WriteUtf8V2(isolate, reinterpret_cast<char*>(resource + 1),
+                   byteLength + 1,
+                   String::WriteFlags::kNullTerminate |
+                       String::WriteFlags::kReplaceInvalidUtf8);
+  return resource;
 }
 
-OneByteStringResource::~OneByteStringResource() {
-  // data_ comes from strdup (see Interop::WriteValue's CStringEncoding path).
-  std::free(const_cast<char*>(this->data_));
+OneByteStringResource::OneByteStringResource(size_t length) : length_(length) {}
+
+void OneByteStringResource::Dispose() {
+  this->~OneByteStringResource();
+  std::free(this);
 }
 
 const char* OneByteStringResource::data() const {
-    return this->data_;
+  return reinterpret_cast<const char*>(this + 1);
 }
 
 size_t OneByteStringResource::length() const {
diff --git a/NativeScript/runtime/OneByteStringResource.h b/NativeScript/runtime/OneByteStringResource.h
index 0cf0a8fe..e49a572d 100644
--- a/NativeScript/runtime/OneByteStringResource.h
+++ b/NativeScript/runtime/OneByteStringResource.h
@@ -5,17 +5,28 @@
 
 namespace tns {
 
-class OneByteStringResource : public v8::String::ExternalOneByteStringResource {
-public:
-    OneByteStringResource(const char* data, size_t length);
-    ~OneByteStringResource() override;
-    const char* data() const override;
-    size_t length() const override;
-private:
-    const char* data_;
-    size_t length_;
-};
+// A NUL-terminated UTF-8 copy of a JS string, stored in the same allocation as
+// the resource. V8 releases it through Dispose(), never through delete.
+class OneByteStringResource final
+    : public v8::String::ExternalOneByteStringResource {
+ public:
+  static OneByteStringResource* NewUtf8Copy(v8::Isolate* isolate,
+                                            v8::Local<v8::String> str);
+
+  const char* data() const override;
+  // The UTF-8 byte count plus the NUL, so it is never zero: V8 disposes a
+  // zero-length resource as soon as it is handed one.
+  size_t length() const override;
+
+ protected:
+  void Dispose() override;
 
+ private:
+  explicit OneByteStringResource(size_t length);
+  ~OneByteStringResource() override = default;
+
+  size_t length_;
+};
 }
 
 #endif /* OneByteStringResource_h */