diff --git a/spacy/tokens/token.pyx b/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
index 26cdae786..b2b7dc83f 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# encoding: utf8
+# cython: infer_types=True
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from libc.string cimport memcpy
 from cpython.mem cimport PyMem_Malloc, PyMem_Free
 # Compiler crashes on memory view coercion without this. Should report bug.