diff --git a/django_webmap_corpus/tests/south_settings.py b/django_webmap_corpus/tests/south_settings.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/django_webmap_corpus/tests/south_settings.py
+++ b/django_webmap_corpus/tests/south_settings.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """
 These settings are used by the ``manage.py`` command.
add unicode to south_settings