diff --git a/nselib/unicode.lua b/nselib/unicode.lua
index d9d3504cf..241033be0 100644
--- a/nselib/unicode.lua
+++ b/nselib/unicode.lua
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ local unpack = bin.unpack
 function decode(buf, decoder, bigendian)
   local cp = {}
   local pos = 1
-  while pos < #buf do
+  while pos <= #buf do
     pos, cp[#cp+1] = decoder(buf, pos, bigendian)
   end
   return cp