diff --git a/Libraries/LibTextCodec/Decoder.cpp b/Libraries/LibTextCodec/Decoder.cpp
index 2c62037962..c4e3c94dd9 100644
--- a/Libraries/LibTextCodec/Decoder.cpp
+++ b/Libraries/LibTextCodec/Decoder.cpp
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 namespace TextCodec {
 
-Latin1Decoder& latin1_decoder()
+static Latin1Decoder& latin1_decoder()
 {
     static Latin1Decoder* decoder;
     if (!decoder)
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Latin1Decoder& latin1_decoder()
     return *decoder;
 }
 
-UTF8Decoder& utf8_decoder()
+static UTF8Decoder& utf8_decoder()
 {
     static UTF8Decoder* decoder;
     if (!decoder)