diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fe7739de3b..a7319683b0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Dec 25 19:35:51 2008  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* transcode.c (sym_ignore): remove useless symbol.
+
 Thu Dec 25 18:36:04 2008  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
 
 	* io.c (pipe_close): removed.
diff --git a/transcode.c b/transcode.c
index 7b8c6dbd58..e5538a0871 100644
--- a/transcode.c
+++ b/transcode.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ VALUE rb_eConverterNotFoundError;
 
 VALUE rb_cEncodingConverter;
 
-static VALUE sym_invalid, sym_undef, sym_ignore, sym_replace;
+static VALUE sym_invalid, sym_undef, sym_replace;
 static VALUE sym_xml, sym_text, sym_attr;
 static VALUE sym_universal_newline;
 static VALUE sym_crlf_newline;
@@ -4024,7 +4024,6 @@ Init_transcode(void)
 
     sym_invalid = ID2SYM(rb_intern("invalid"));
     sym_undef = ID2SYM(rb_intern("undef"));
-    sym_ignore = ID2SYM(rb_intern("ignore"));
     sym_replace = ID2SYM(rb_intern("replace"));
     sym_xml = ID2SYM(rb_intern("xml"));
     sym_text = ID2SYM(rb_intern("text"));