From 1d54f13e3b0c3b5f0e04ff4b139de6ecfa06fb4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shubham Vasudeo Desai <sdesai8@vclvm178-253.vcl.ncsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 19:06:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix uninitialized variable 'encoding' in parser_interface.c

---
 lib/gis/parser_interface.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/gis/parser_interface.c b/lib/gis/parser_interface.c
index 735d925ff3c..d2c35fc96ab 100644
--- a/lib/gis/parser_interface.c
+++ b/lib/gis/parser_interface.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ void G__usage_xml(void)
     char *type;
     char *s, *top;
     int i;
-    const char *encoding;
+    const char *encoding = NULL;
     int new_prompt = 0;
 
     new_prompt = G__uses_new_gisprompt();