diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index 5eea3149f..2f0f4d5fb 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -2737,7 +2737,7 @@ class RwkvModel(Model):
                 token = token.encode("utf-8") if isinstance(token, str) else token
                 assert isinstance(token, bytes)
                 assert len(token) == token_len
-                token_text: str = str(token)[2:-1]
+                token_text: str = repr(token)[2:-1]  # "b'\xff'" -> "\xff"
                 tokens.append(token_text.encode("utf-8"))
                 toktypes.append(gguf.TokenType.NORMAL)
         remainder = vocab_size - len(tokens)