diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
index 8f0a21967..4dcd75e9c 100644
--- a/.appveyor.yml
+++ b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -8,16 +8,24 @@ environment:
   matrix:
 
     # Python 2.7.10 is the latest version and is not pre-installed.
-
     - PYTHON: "C:\\Python27.10-x64"
       PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.10"
       PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
 
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python27.10-x32"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.10"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "32"
+
     # The lastest Python 3.4.
     - PYTHON: "C:\\Python34-x64" 
       PYTHON_VERSION: "3.4.x" # currently 3.4.3 
       PYTHON_ARCH: "64" 
 
+    #- PYTHON: "C:\\Python34-x32" 
+    #  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.4.x" # currently 3.4.3 
+    #  PYTHON_ARCH: "32" 
+
+
 install:
   # Install Python (from the official .msi of http://python.org) and pip when
   # not already installed.
@@ -30,10 +38,11 @@ install:
   - "SET PYTHONPATH=%CD%;%PYTHONPATH%"
 
   # Filesystem root
-  # - ps: "ls \"C:/\""
+  #- ps: "ls \"C:/\""
+  #- SET
 
   # Installed SDKs
-  # - ps: "ls \"C:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows\""
+  #- ps: "ls \"C:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows\""
 
   # Checking stdint.h
   #- ps: "ls \"C:/projects/spacy/include/\""
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ad384fd2b..8eb39ba01 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+
+<img src="https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/aoe3dtkep36rdaqf?svg=true" />
+
 spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP
 ==============================
 
@@ -49,3 +52,6 @@ Difficult to support:
 
 * PyPy 2.7
 * PyPy 3.4
+
+
+
diff --git a/bin/init_model.py b/bin/init_model.py
index eb07f6494..991b5dd58 100644
--- a/bin/init_model.py
+++ b/bin/init_model.py
@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@ def setup_vocab(get_lex_attr, tag_map, src_dir, dst_dir):
         else:
             lexeme.cluster = 0
     vocab.dump(str(dst_dir / 'lexemes.bin'))
-    vocab.strings.dump(str(dst_dir / 'strings.txt'))
+    with (dst_dir / 'strings.json').open('w') as file_:
+        vocab.strings.dump(file_)
     with (dst_dir / 'oov_prob').open('w') as file_:
         file_.write('%f' % oov_prob)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 090b80f96..48e72ff99 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -129,11 +129,13 @@ def cython_setup(mod_names, language, includes):
         version=VERSION,
         url="http://honnibal.github.io/spaCy/",
         package_data={"spacy": ["*.pxd"],
+                      "spacy.tokens": ["*.pxd"],
+                      "spacy.serialize": ["*.pxd"],
                       "spacy.en": ["*.pxd", "data/pos/*",
                                    "data/wordnet/*", "data/tokenizer/*",
                                    "data/vocab/tag_map.json",
                                    "data/vocab/lexemes.bin",
-                                   "data/vocab/strings.txt"],
+                                   "data/vocab/strings.json"],
                       "spacy.syntax": ["*.pxd"]},
         ext_modules=exts,
         cmdclass={'build_ext': build_ext_cython_subclass},
@@ -175,7 +177,7 @@ def run_setup(exts):
     headers_workaround.install_headers('numpy')
 
 
-VERSION = '0.96'
+VERSION = '0.97'
 def main(modules, is_pypy):
     language = "cpp"
     includes = ['.', path.join(sys.prefix, 'include')]
diff --git a/spacy/en/download.py b/spacy/en/download.py
index b95288422..748e0542d 100644
--- a/spacy/en/download.py
+++ b/spacy/en/download.py
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@ import plac
 
 from . import uget
 
+
 try:
     FileExistsError
 except NameError:
     FileExistsError = Exception
 
+
 # TODO: Read this from the same source as the setup
-VERSION = '0.9.5'
+VERSION = '0.9.6'
 
 AWS_STORE = 'https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/media.spacynlp.com'
 
diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index 65425bc45..691b3e97e 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from os import path
 from warnings import warn
+import io
 
 try:
     import ujson as json
@@ -247,7 +248,10 @@ class Language(object):
         self.parser.model.end_training(path.join(data_dir, 'deps', 'model'))
         self.entity.model.end_training(path.join(data_dir, 'ner', 'model'))
         self.tagger.model.end_training(path.join(data_dir, 'pos', 'model'))
-        self.vocab.strings.dump(path.join(data_dir, 'vocab', 'strings.txt'))
+
+        strings_loc = path.join(data_dir, 'vocab', 'strings.json')
+        with io.open(strings_loc, 'w', encoding='utf8') as file_:
+            self.vocab.strings.dump(file_)
 
         with open(path.join(data_dir, 'vocab', 'serializer.json'), 'w') as file_:
             file_.write(
diff --git a/spacy/lemmatizer.py b/spacy/lemmatizer.py
index c1d296d7c..08e511f68 100644
--- a/spacy/lemmatizer.py
+++ b/spacy/lemmatizer.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class Lemmatizer(object):
             index[pos] = read_index(path.join(data_dir, 'wordnet', 'index.%s' % pos))
             exc[pos] = read_exc(path.join(data_dir, 'wordnet', '%s.exc' % pos))
         if path.exists(path.join(data_dir, 'vocab', 'lemma_rules.json')):
-            rules = json.load(open(path.join(data_dir, 'vocab', 'lemma_rules.json')))
+            rules = json.load(codecs.open(path.join(data_dir, 'vocab', 'lemma_rules.json'), encoding='utf_8'))
         else:
             rules = {}
         return cls(index, exc, rules)
diff --git a/spacy/strings.pyx b/spacy/strings.pyx
index 2208d3bdf..cf9c224e6 100644
--- a/spacy/strings.pyx
+++ b/spacy/strings.pyx
@@ -12,8 +12,15 @@ from libc.stdint cimport int64_t
 
 from .typedefs cimport hash_t, attr_t
 
+try:
+    import codecs as io
+except ImportError:
+    import io
 
-SEPARATOR = '\n|-SEP-|\n'
+try:
+    import ujson as json
+except ImportError:
+    import json
 
 
 cpdef hash_t hash_string(unicode string) except 0:
@@ -114,7 +121,11 @@ cdef class StringStore:
     def __iter__(self):
         cdef int i
         for i in range(self.size):
-            yield self[i]
+            if i == 0:
+                yield u''
+            else:
+                utf8str = &self.c[i]
+                yield _decode(utf8str)
 
     def __reduce__(self):
         strings = [""]
@@ -138,28 +149,22 @@ cdef class StringStore:
         self.size += 1
         return &self.c[self.size-1]
 
-    def dump(self, loc):
-        cdef Utf8Str* string
-        cdef unicode py_string
-        cdef int i
-        with codecs.open(loc, 'w', 'utf8') as file_:
-            for i in range(1, self.size):
-                string = &self.c[i]
-                py_string = _decode(string)
-                file_.write(py_string)
-                if (i+1) != self.size:
-                    file_.write(SEPARATOR)
+    def dump(self, file_):
+        string_data = json.dumps([s for s in self])
+        if not isinstance(string_data, unicode):
+            string_data = string_data.decode('utf8')
+        file_.write(string_data)
 
-    def load(self, loc):
-        with codecs.open(loc, 'r', 'utf8') as file_:
-            strings = file_.read().split(SEPARATOR)
+    def load(self, file_):
+        strings = json.load(file_)
         if strings == ['']:
             return None
         cdef unicode string
         cdef bytes byte_string
         for string in strings: 
-            byte_string = string.encode('utf8')
-            self.intern(byte_string, len(byte_string))
+            if string:
+                byte_string = string.encode('utf8')
+                self.intern(byte_string, len(byte_string))
 
     def _realloc(self):
         # We want to map straight to pointers, but they'll be invalidated if
diff --git a/spacy/tokenizer.pxd b/spacy/tokenizer.pxd
index 9d60d2a6e..c07e87bbc 100644
--- a/spacy/tokenizer.pxd
+++ b/spacy/tokenizer.pxd
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ cdef class Tokenizer:
     cdef object _prefix_re
     cdef object _suffix_re
     cdef object _infix_re
+    cdef object _rules
 
     cpdef Doc tokens_from_list(self, list strings)
 
diff --git a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
index ef9c26c01..f0d664c09 100644
--- a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ cdef class Tokenizer:
         self._infix_re = infix_re
         self.vocab = vocab
         self._load_special_tokenization(rules)
+        self._rules = rules
+
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        args = (self.vocab, 
+                self._rules, 
+                self._prefix_re, 
+                self._suffix_re, 
+                self._infix_re)
+
+        return (self.__class__, args, None, None)
 
     @classmethod
     def from_dir(cls, Vocab vocab, data_dir):
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
index c0cc6803b..93be3e363 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ cdef class Doc:
     def __str__(self):
         return u''.join([t.string for t in self])
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return u''.join([t.string for t in self])
+
     def similarity(self, other):
         if self.vector_norm == 0 or other.vector_norm == 0:
             return 0.0
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/spans.pyx b/spacy/tokens/spans.pyx
index e8d2f2e59..e1b881f79 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/spans.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/spans.pyx
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ cdef class Span:
             return 0
         return self.end - self.start
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        text = self.text_with_ws
+        if self[-1].whitespace_:
+            text = text[:-1]
+        return text
+
     def __getitem__(self, object i):
         if isinstance(i, slice):
             start, end = normalize_slice(len(self), i.start, i.stop, i.step)
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/token.pyx b/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
index a7447fb79..cce8eeeb4 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ cdef class Token:
     def __str__(self):
         return self.string
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return self.string
+
     cpdef bint check_flag(self, attr_id_t flag_id) except -1:
         return Lexeme.c_check_flag(self.c.lex, flag_id)
 
diff --git a/spacy/vocab.pyx b/spacy/vocab.pyx
index aec01f239..f14a8e8c6 100644
--- a/spacy/vocab.pyx
+++ b/spacy/vocab.pyx
@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ cdef class Vocab:
         cdef Vocab self = cls(get_lex_attr=get_lex_attr, tag_map=tag_map,
                               lemmatizer=lemmatizer, serializer_freqs=serializer_freqs)
 
-        self.load_lexemes(path.join(data_dir, 'strings.txt'), path.join(data_dir, 'lexemes.bin'))
+        with io.open(path.join(data_dir, 'strings.json'), 'r', encoding='utf8') as file_:
+            self.strings.load(file_)
+        self.load_lexemes(path.join(data_dir, 'lexemes.bin'))
         if path.exists(path.join(data_dir, 'vec.bin')):
             self.vectors_length = self.load_vectors_from_bin_loc(path.join(data_dir, 'vec.bin'))
         return self
@@ -106,11 +108,12 @@ cdef class Vocab:
         # TODO: Dump vectors
         tmp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
         lex_loc = path.join(tmp_dir, 'lexemes.bin')
-        str_loc = path.join(tmp_dir, 'strings.txt')
+        str_loc = path.join(tmp_dir, 'strings.json')
         vec_loc = path.join(self.data_dir, 'vec.bin') if self.data_dir is not None else None
 
         self.dump(lex_loc)
-        self.strings.dump(str_loc)
+        with io.open(str_loc, 'w', encoding='utf8') as file_:
+            self.strings.dump(file_)
         
         state = (str_loc, lex_loc, vec_loc, self.morphology, self.get_lex_attr,
                  self.serializer_freqs, self.data_dir)
@@ -250,8 +253,7 @@ cdef class Vocab:
             fp.write_from(&lexeme.l2_norm, sizeof(lexeme.l2_norm), 1)
         fp.close()
 
-    def load_lexemes(self, strings_loc, loc):
-        self.strings.load(strings_loc)
+    def load_lexemes(self, loc):
         if not path.exists(loc):
             raise IOError('LexemeCs file not found at %s' % loc)
         fp = CFile(loc, 'rb')
@@ -369,7 +371,9 @@ def unpickle_vocab(strings_loc, lex_loc, vec_loc, morphology, get_lex_attr,
     vocab.data_dir = data_dir
     vocab.serializer_freqs = serializer_freqs
 
-    vocab.load_lexemes(strings_loc, lex_loc)
+    with io.open(strings_loc, 'r', encoding='utf8') as file_:
+        vocab.strings.load(file_)
+    vocab.load_lexemes(lex_loc)
     if vec_loc is not None:
         vocab.load_vectors_from_bin_loc(vec_loc)
     return vocab
diff --git a/tests/test_pickle.py b/tests/test_pickle.py
index a3d54c627..540e54486 100644
--- a/tests/test_pickle.py
+++ b/tests/test_pickle.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-import pytest
-import io
 import cloudpickle
+import io
+import os
 import pickle
-
+import pytest
+import tempfile
 
 @pytest.mark.models
 def test_pickle_english(EN):
@@ -12,4 +13,15 @@ def test_pickle_english(EN):
     file_.seek(0)
 
     loaded = pickle.load(file_)
+    assert loaded is not None
 
+@pytest.mark.models
+def test_cloudpickle_to_file(EN):
+    f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
+    p = cloudpickle.CloudPickler(f)
+    p.dump(EN)
+    f.close()
+    loaded_en = cloudpickle.load(open(f.name))
+    os.unlink(f.name)
+    doc = loaded_en(unicode('test parse'))
+    assert len(doc) == 2
diff --git a/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py b/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
index abf09dd03..be93b9953 100644
--- a/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
+++ b/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import pytest
+import io
+import pickle
+import cloudpickle
+import tempfile
+
+
+@pytest.mark.models
+def test_pickle(en_tokenizer):
+    file_ = io.BytesIO()
+    cloudpickle.dump(en_tokenizer, file_)
+    file_.seek(0)
+    loaded = pickle.load(file_)
+    assert loaded is not None
 
 
 def test_no_word(en_tokenizer):
@@ -108,7 +121,7 @@ def test_cnts5(en_tokenizer):
 #    text = """Today is Tuesday.Mr."""
 #    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
 #    assert len(tokens) == 5
-#    assert [w.orth_ for w in tokens] == ['Today', 'is', 'Tuesday', '.', 'Mr.']                
+#    assert [w.orth_ for w in tokens] == ['Today', 'is', 'Tuesday', '.', 'Mr.']
 
 
 def test_cnts6(en_tokenizer):
diff --git a/tests/vocab/test_intern.py b/tests/vocab/test_intern.py
index 15fd6870f..2c2cfd4f1 100644
--- a/tests/vocab/test_intern.py
+++ b/tests/vocab/test_intern.py
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # -*- coding: utf8 -*-
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import pickle
-import io
 
 from spacy.strings import StringStore
 
 import pytest
 
+import io
+
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def sstore():
@@ -92,4 +93,12 @@ def test_pickle_string_store(sstore):
     assert loaded[hello_id] == u'Hi'
 
 
-
+def test_dump_load(sstore):
+    id_ = sstore[u'qqqqq']
+    loc = '/tmp/sstore.json'
+    with io.open(loc, 'w', encoding='utf8') as file_:
+        sstore.dump(file_)
+    new_store = StringStore()
+    with io.open(loc, 'r', encoding='utf8') as file_:
+        new_store.load(file_)
+    assert new_store[id_] == u'qqqqq'