diff --git a/src/globals.h b/src/globals.h
index 83e6c4b..9337134 100644
--- a/src/globals.h
+++ b/src/globals.h
@@ -677,6 +677,7 @@
 /* Codepage nr of 'encoding'.  Negative means it's not been set yet, zero
  * means 'encoding' is not a valid codepage. */
 EXTERN int	enc_codepage INIT(= -1);
+EXTERN int	enc_latin9 INIT(= FALSE);	/* 'encoding' is latin9 */
 # endif
 EXTERN int	has_mbyte INIT(= 0);		/* any multi-byte encoding */