diff --git a/R/character-helpers.R b/R/character-helpers.R
index fe82b4cb..8261bda2 100644
--- a/R/character-helpers.R
+++ b/R/character-helpers.R
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ repair_encoding <- function(code, string_is_ascii, encoding) {
   if (no_repair_needed) return(code)
   .cstr_pipe(
     code,
-    sprintf("(`Encoding<-`)(\"%s\")", encoding),
+    sprintf("`Encoding<-`(\"%s\")", encoding),
     one_liner = TRUE
   )
 }
diff --git a/tests/testthat/_snaps/encoding.md b/tests/testthat/_snaps/encoding.md
index fb345a4a..9694e77e 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/_snaps/encoding.md
+++ b/tests/testthat/_snaps/encoding.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
       x <- iconv("hello world", to = "latin1")
       construct(x)
     Output
-      "hello\xa0world" |> (`Encoding<-`)("latin1")
+      "hello\xa0world" |> `Encoding<-`("latin1")
     Code
       x <- iconv("こんにちは", to = "shift_jis")
       construct(x)
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@
       Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
       construct(x)
     Output
-      "hello\xa0world" |> (`Encoding<-`)("latin1")
+      "hello\xa0world" |> `Encoding<-`("latin1")