From bacca5fa437a7a404ed773030190b86f874e9862 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: clement <clement@seald.io>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:22:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] If bytes.length is odd, the last 8 bits must be ignored (same
 as node.js)

---
 index.js          | 3 ++-
 test/to-string.js | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 19b0468..49c1845 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1076,7 +1076,8 @@ function hexSlice (buf, start, end) {
 function utf16leSlice (buf, start, end) {
   var bytes = buf.slice(start, end)
   var res = ''
-  for (var i = 0; i < bytes.length; i += 2) {
+  // If bytes.length is odd, the last 8 bits must be ignored (same as node.js)
+  for (var i = 0; i < bytes.length - 1; i += 2) {
     res += String.fromCharCode(bytes[i] + (bytes[i + 1] * 256))
   }
   return res
diff --git a/test/to-string.js b/test/to-string.js
index 393627f..6b46875 100644
--- a/test/to-string.js
+++ b/test/to-string.js
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ test('utf16le to utf16', function (t) {
   t.end()
 })
 
+test('utf16le to utf16 with odd byte length input', function (t) {
+  t.equal(
+    new B(new B('abcde', 'utf8').toString('utf16le'), 'utf16le').toString('utf8'),
+    'abcd'
+  )
+  t.end()
+})
+
 test('utf16le to hex', function (t) {
   t.equal(
     new B('abcd', 'utf16le').toString('hex'),
-- 
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