diff --git a/lib/goffice-0.0.4/goffice/glib24_26-compat.c b/lib/goffice-0.0.4/goffice/glib24_26-compat.c
index 438e46a699..e2ececb322 100644
--- a/lib/goffice-0.0.4/goffice/glib24_26-compat.c
+++ b/lib/goffice-0.0.4/goffice/glib24_26-compat.c
@@ -229,9 +229,9 @@ _g_compute_locale_variants (const gchar *locale)
   GSList *retval = NULL;
 
   gchar *language;
-  gchar *territory;
-  gchar *codeset;
-  gchar *modifier;
+  gchar *territory = NULL;
+  gchar *codeset = NULL;
+  gchar *modifier = NULL;
 
   guint mask;
   guint i;