Work around for TITAN bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539393

    loggers::get_instance().warning("lost_codec::encode: Unsupported variant");

    return -1;

  }

  data = OCTETSTRING(encoding_buffer.get_len(), encoding_buffer.get_data());

  loggers::get_instance().log_msg("lost_codec::decode: After encoding: ", data);

  // Work-around to be removed when fixed in urn_ietf..._lost.ttcn

  std::string str((const char*)encoding_buffer.get_data(), (const char*)(encoding_buffer.get_data() + encoding_buffer.get_len()));

  loggers::get_instance().log("lost_codec::encode: Before work-around: %s", str.c_str());

  std::size_t it = str.find("pointType");

  if (it != std::string::npos) {

    str = str.substr(0, it + 5) + str.substr(it + 9);

    it = str.find("pointType");

    str = str.substr(0, it + 5) + str.substr(it + 9);

  }

  data = OCTETSTRING(str.length(), (const unsigned char*)str.c_str());

  //data = OCTETSTRING(encoding_buffer.get_len(), encoding_buffer.get_data());

  loggers::get_instance().log_msg("lost_codec::encode: After encoding: ", data);

  loggers::get_instance().log("<<< lost_codec::encode");

  return 0;