diff --git a/DeBERTa/deberta/gpt2_bpe_utils.py b/DeBERTa/deberta/gpt2_bpe_utils.py
index 58405da..b089f6a 100644
--- a/DeBERTa/deberta/gpt2_bpe_utils.py
+++ b/DeBERTa/deberta/gpt2_bpe_utils.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Original license: MIT
 from functools import lru_cache
 import json
 import random
+import unicodedata
+
 try:
     import regex as re
 except ImportError: