diff --git a/src/globals.h b/src/globals.h
index 6bfc13d..29a643b 100644
--- a/src/globals.h
+++ b/src/globals.h
@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@
 						   DBCS encoding */
 EXTERN int	enc_unicode INIT(= 0);	/* 2: UCS-2 or UTF-16, 4: UCS-4 */
 EXTERN int	enc_utf8 INIT(= FALSE);		/* UTF-8 encoded Unicode */
+EXTERN int	enc_latin1like INIT(= TRUE);	/* 'encoding' is latin1 comp. */
 # ifdef WIN3264
 /* Codepage nr of 'encoding'.  Negative means it's not been set yet, zero
  * means 'encoding' is not a valid codepage. */