diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue5838.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue5838.py
index 558273101..c008c5aec 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue5838.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue5838.py
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# coding: utf8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from spacy.lang.en import English
 from spacy.tokens import Span
 from spacy import displacy