diff --git a/lib/src/main/java/com/uwyn/urlencoder/UrlEncoder.java b/lib/src/main/java/com/uwyn/urlencoder/UrlEncoder.java
index 7adee18..1962f61 100644
--- a/lib/src/main/java/com/uwyn/urlencoder/UrlEncoder.java
+++ b/lib/src/main/java/com/uwyn/urlencoder/UrlEncoder.java
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ public abstract class UrlEncoder {
                     // of the encoding format %xx, is the maximum number of
                     // bytes that can be extracted
                     bytes_buffer = new byte[(length - i) / 3];
-                    bytes_pos = 0;
                 }
 
                 i += 1;