diff --git a/bootstrap_paginator/templatetags/paginator.py b/bootstrap_paginator/templatetags/paginator.py
index 7fa3dc8..50c38b9 100644
--- a/bootstrap_paginator/templatetags/paginator.py
+++ b/bootstrap_paginator/templatetags/paginator.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from django.utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
 from django import template
 from django.conf import settings