diff --git a/tests/test_lemmatizer.py b/tests/test_lemmatizer.py
index 957aec7bb..bc9231259 100644
--- a/tests/test_lemmatizer.py
+++ b/tests/test_lemmatizer.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from spacy.en.lemmatizer import Lemmatizer, read_index, read_exc
 from spacy.en import DATA_DIR
 from os import path