diff --git a/bashbot-lib.sh b/bashbot-lib.sh
index ac6c3a8..28994c6 100755
--- a/bashbot-lib.sh
+++ b/bashbot-lib.sh
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ getusr_name(){
 getusrname(){
   local username="$(tail -n 1 "${bot_tmpdir}${1}" | grep -om1\
    '"username":"\(\\"\|[^"]*\)*"\(,"language_code"\|},"chat"\)' | head -n1)"
-  grep "\"language_code\"$" <<< "${username}" >/dev/null && utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode "${user_name:12:-17}"\
+  grep "\"language_code\"$" <<< "${username}" >/dev/null && utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode "${username:12:-17}"\
   || {
     grep "},\"chat\"$" <<< "${username}" >/dev/null && utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode "${username:12:-9}"
   }