1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/coding.c b/src/coding.c
index 6848fa674d3..01a678e2eaf 100644
--- a/src/coding.c
+++ b/src/coding.c
@@ -7030,10 +7030,10 @@ decode_coding_object (coding, src_object, from, from_byte, to, to_byte,
       || (! NILP (CODING_ATTR_POST_READ (attrs))
           && NILP (dst_object)))
     {
-      coding->dst_object = code_conversion_save (1, 1);
+      coding->dst_multibyte = !CODING_FOR_UNIBYTE (coding);
+      coding->dst_object = code_conversion_save (1, coding->dst_multibyte);
       coding->dst_pos = BEG;
       coding->dst_pos_byte = BEG_BYTE;
-      coding->dst_multibyte = !CODING_FOR_UNIBYTE (coding);
     }
   else if (BUFFERP (dst_object))
     {