diff --git a/spacy/tests/parser/test_neural_parser.py b/spacy/tests/parser/test_neural_parser.py
index ea7bd3cf6..10d37c9bc 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/parser/test_neural_parser.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/parser/test_neural_parser.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# coding: utf8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from thinc.neural import Model
 from mock import Mock
 import pytest