diff --git a/enc/utf_16_32.h b/enc/utf_16_32.h
index b232767ee3..da58d1b23c 100644
--- a/enc/utf_16_32.h
+++ b/enc/utf_16_32.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #include "regenc.h"
 /* dummy for unsupported, statefull encoding */
-#define ENC_DUMMY_UNICODE(name) ENC_DUMMY(name)
+#define ENC_DUMMY_UNICODE(name) ENC_REPLICATE(name, name "BE")
 ENC_DUMMY_UNICODE("UTF-16");
 ENC_DUMMY_UNICODE("UTF-32");