diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 54c3a4304a..eeded30ea7 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -644,8 +644,8 @@ immodules = [
   [ 'inuktitut', [ immodule_srcdir + 'iminuktitut.c' ] ],
   [ 'ipa', [ immodule_srcdir + 'imipa.c' ] ],
   [ 'multipress', [ immodule_srcdir + 'gtkimcontextmultipress.c', immodule_srcdir + 'immultipress.c' ], true,
-                    ['-DMULTIPRESS_LOCALEDIR="\"@0@\""'.format(gtk_mplocaledir),
-                     '-DMULTIPRESS_CONFDIR="\"@0@/gtk-3.0\""'.format(gtk_sysconfdir)] ],
+                    ['-DMULTIPRESS_LOCALEDIR="@0@"'.format(gtk_mplocaledir),
+                     '-DMULTIPRESS_CONFDIR="@0@/gtk-3.0"'.format(gtk_sysconfdir)] ],
   [ 'thai', [ immodule_srcdir + 'thai-charprop.c', immodule_srcdir + 'gtkimcontextthai.c', immodule_srcdir + 'imthai.c' ] ],
   [ 'ti-er', [ immodule_srcdir + 'imti-er.c' ] ],
   [ 'ti-et', [ immodule_srcdir + 'imti-et.c' ] ],