Index: transcoder.cpp
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--- transcoder.cpp	(revision 639220)
+++ transcoder.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -271,12 +271,12 @@
 
 char* Transcoder::encode(const LogString& src, Pool& p) {
 #if LOG4CXX_CHARSET_UTF8 && LOG4CXX_LOGCHAR_IS_UTF8
-   std::string& tmp = src;
+   return p.pstrdup(src);
 #else
    std::string tmp;
    encode(src, tmp);
+   return p.pstrdup(tmp);
 #endif
-   return p.pstrdup(tmp);
 }