diff --git a/spacy/tests/gold/test_alignment.py b/spacy/tests/gold/test_alignment.py
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+from spacy.gold import _min_edit_path
+
+
+def test_min_edit_path():
+    '''Test problem that arose from Chinese parsing, where alignment didn't match
+    at the start, depending on which direction followed. The solution was that
+    a regular expression did not have re.UNICODE flag, causing it to over match.
+    '''
+
+    cand_words = [u'\u53cc\u65b9', u'D', u'-', u'RAM']
+    gold_words = [u'\u53cc\u65b9', u'D-RAM']
+    cost, alignment = _min_edit_path(cand_words, gold_words)
+    assert alignment[0] == 'M'
+    cost, alignment = _min_edit_path(gold_words, cand_words)
+    assert alignment[0] == 'M'