diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 91d8f0a7..985cce23 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ and a potential segmentation fault from specially crafted config files
 - Fixed incorrect inclusion of definition for extra validators [#1238][]
 - Fixed fuzz generated failure from crafted files introduced in recent release
   [#1238][]
+- Removed some usage of static const std::string in inline function that had
+  potential memory issues when CLI11 is used with shared libraries, this likely
+  isn't a bug but the fix did result in smaller code size so was kept. [#1244][]
 
+[#1244]: https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11/pull/1244
 [#1238]: https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11/pull/1238
 [#1239]: https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11/pull/1239
 
diff --git a/include/CLI/StringTools.hpp b/include/CLI/StringTools.hpp
index 77899fd9..d7f5ce1a 100644
--- a/include/CLI/StringTools.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/StringTools.hpp
@@ -165,14 +165,12 @@ CLI11_INLINE bool valid_name_string(const std::string &str);
 
 /// Verify an app name
 inline bool valid_alias_name_string(const std::string &str) {
-    static const std::string badChars{'\n', '\0'};
-    return (str.find_first_of(badChars) == std::string::npos);
+    return ((str.find_first_of('\n') == std::string::npos) && (str.find_first_of('\0') == std::string::npos));
 }
 
 /// check if a string is a container segment separator (empty or "%%")
 inline bool is_separator(const std::string &str) {
-    static const std::string sep("%%");
-    return (str.empty() || str == sep);
+    return (str.empty() || (str.size() == 2 && str[0] == '%' && str[1] == '%'));
 }
 
 /// Verify that str consists of letters only