diff --git a/legacy/eina/src/lib/eina_unicode.c b/legacy/eina/src/lib/eina_unicode.c
index 7e7ab21cc4..4ac49e33b9 100644
--- a/legacy/eina/src/lib/eina_unicode.c
+++ b/legacy/eina/src/lib/eina_unicode.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ eina_unicode_strncpy(Eina_Unicode *dest, const Eina_Unicode *source, size_t n)
 {
    Eina_Unicode *ret = dest;
 
-   for (n = 0; *source && n; n--)
+   for ( ; n && *source ; n--)
       *dest++ = *source++;
    for (; n; n--)
       *dest++ = 0;