From 2c3d3e8a6d086e25e4ee02615112eefeffef40fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enrique Zamudio <alterbass@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:23:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] check if encoding has been set before using it

---
 src/main/java/com/solab/iso8583/IsoValue.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/solab/iso8583/IsoValue.java b/src/main/java/com/solab/iso8583/IsoValue.java
index 2936992..5b6d8d9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/solab/iso8583/IsoValue.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/solab/iso8583/IsoValue.java
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ public class IsoValue<T> implements Cloneable {
             } else if (ldiff == 2) {
                 lhead = "00" + lhead;
             }
-            outs.write(lhead.getBytes(encoding));
+            outs.write(encoding == null ? lhead.getBytes():lhead.getBytes(encoding));
         } else {
             //write the length in ASCII
             if (digits == 3) {