diff --git a/loginserver/config.cpp b/loginserver/config.cpp
index ee17bdbed..ecffb00f7 100644
--- a/loginserver/config.cpp
+++ b/loginserver/config.cpp
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ void Config::Parse(const char *file_name)
 */
 void Config::Tokenize(FILE *input, std::list<std::string> &tokens)
 {
-	char c = fgetc(input);
+	int c = fgetc(input);
 	std::string lexeme;
 
 	while(c != EOF)