diff --git a/src/client/client.C b/src/client/client.C
index 1d3ee28dec..424f786234 100644
--- a/src/client/client.C
+++ b/src/client/client.C
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <config.h>
 
 #include "debug.h"
+#include "support/unicode.h"
 #include "support/lstrings.h"
 
 #include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp>
@@ -69,6 +70,13 @@ using std::cin;
 using std::endl;
 
 
+IconvProcessor & utf8ToUcs4()
+{
+	static IconvProcessor iconv(ucs4_codeset, "UTF-8");
+	return iconv;
+}
+
+
 namespace support {
 
 string itoa(unsigned int i)
@@ -498,8 +506,6 @@ int p(vector<char *> const & arg)
 
 } // namespace cmdline
 
-
-
 } // namespace lyx