diff --git a/InvenTree/plugins/__init__.py b/InvenTree/plugins/__init__.py
index e69de29bb2..ea758ff8c5 100644
--- a/InvenTree/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/InvenTree/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from __future__ import unicode_literals  # pragma: no cover