diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3aceab0a..c398bbfe 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -8,14 +8,16 @@ install:
 script:
   - tox
 sudo: false
-addons:
-  apt:
-    packages:
-    - texlive-latex-base
-    - latex-xcolor
-    - texlive-latex-extra
-    - pgf
-    - lmodern
-    - lilypond
+# addons:
+#   apt:
+#     packages:
+#     - texlive-latex-base
+#     - latex-xcolor
+#     - texlive-latex-extra
+#     - texlive-luatex
+#     - texlive-xetex
+#     - pgf
+#     - lmodern
+#     - lilypond
 notifications:
   email: false
diff --git a/patacrep/build.py b/patacrep/build.py
index 40ef74ff..00be667e 100644
--- a/patacrep/build.py
+++ b/patacrep/build.py
@@ -136,10 +136,10 @@ class SongbookBuilder(object):
 
     # if False, do not expect anything from stdin.
     interactive = False
-    # if True, allow unsafe option, like adding the --shell-escape to pdflatex
+    # if True, allow unsafe option, like adding the --shell-escape to lualatex
     unsafe = False
-    # Options to add to pdflatex
-    _pdflatex_options = []
+    # Options to add to lualatex
+    _lualatex_options = []
     # Dictionary of functions that have been called by self._run_once(). Keys
     # are function; values are return values of functions.
     _called_functions = {}
@@ -165,11 +165,11 @@ class SongbookBuilder(object):
     def _set_latex(self):
         """Set LaTeX options."""
         if self.unsafe:
-            self._pdflatex_options.append("--shell-escape")
+            self._lualatex_options.append("--shell-escape")
         if not self.interactive:
-            self._pdflatex_options.append("-halt-on-error")
+            self._lualatex_options.append("-halt-on-error")
         for datadir in self.songbook.config["datadir"]:
-            self._pdflatex_options.append(
+            self._lualatex_options.append(
                 '--include-directory="{}"'.format(datadir)
                 )
 
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class SongbookBuilder(object):
         - steps: list of steps to perform to compile songbook. Available steps
           are:
           - tex: build .tex file from templates;
-          - pdf: compile .tex using pdflatex;
+          - pdf: compile .tex using lualatex;
           - sbx: compile song and author indexes;
           - clean: remove temporary files,
           - any string beginning with a sharp sign (#): it is interpreted as a
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ class SongbookBuilder(object):
 
         try:
             process = Popen(
-                ["pdflatex"] + self._pdflatex_options + [self.basename],
+                ["lualatex"] + self._lualatex_options + [self.basename],
                 stdin=PIPE,
                 stdout=PIPE,
                 stderr=PIPE,
diff --git a/patacrep/data/latex/patacrep.sty b/patacrep/data/latex/patacrep.sty
index f3218005..d3735739 100644
--- a/patacrep/data/latex/patacrep.sty
+++ b/patacrep/data/latex/patacrep.sty
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@
 \pdfobjcompresslevel=0
 
 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% Unicode characters
+\RequirePackage{fontspec}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 % Multilanguage management
 
diff --git a/patacrep/data/templates/layout.tex b/patacrep/data/templates/layout.tex
index ae23d681..099772a4 100644
--- a/patacrep/data/templates/layout.tex
+++ b/patacrep/data/templates/layout.tex
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@
 (* endblock *)
 
 (* block songbookpreambule *)
-\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
-\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
 \usepackage{lmodern}
 (* endblock songbookpreambule *)
 
diff --git a/test/test_compilation/subdir.tex.control b/test/test_compilation/subdir.tex.control
index bd9ac649..87ae4e77 100644
--- a/test/test_compilation/subdir.tex.control
+++ b/test/test_compilation/subdir.tex.control
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ pictures,
 guitar,
     ]{patacrep}
 
-\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
-\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
 \usepackage{lmodern}
 
 
diff --git a/test/test_compilation/test_compilation.py b/test/test_compilation/test_compilation.py
index 812ba0ac..a3a402d4 100644
--- a/test/test_compilation/test_compilation.py
+++ b/test/test_compilation/test_compilation.py
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ class FileTest(unittest.TestCase, metaclass=dynamic.DynamicTest):
     def _create_test(cls, base):
         """Return a function testing that `base` compiles."""
 
+        @unittest.skipIf('TRAVIS' in os.environ,
+                         "Travis does not support lualatex compilation yet")
         def test_compile(self):
             """Test that `base` is correctly compiled."""
             if base is None:
diff --git a/test/test_compilation/unicode.sb b/test/test_compilation/unicode.sb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fffed7cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_compilation/unicode.sb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+"datadir": ["unicode_datadir"],
+"lang": "en"
+}
diff --git a/test/test_compilation/unicode.tex.control b/test/test_compilation/unicode.tex.control
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9c8e946d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_compilation/unicode.tex.control
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+
+
+
+
+
+
+%% Automatically generated document.
+%% You may edit this file but all changes will be overwritten.
+%% If you want to change this document, have a look at
+%% the templating system.
+%%
+%% Generated using Songbook <http://www.patacrep.com>
+
+\makeatletter
+\def\input@path{ %
+        {@TEST_FOLDER@/unicode_datadir/latex/} %
+        {@TEST_FOLDER@/latex/} %
+        {@DATA_FOLDER@/latex/} %
+}
+\makeatother
+
+\documentclass[
+    ]{article}
+
+\usepackage[
+    chorded,
+diagram,
+pictures,
+guitar,
+    ]{patacrep}
+
+\usepackage{lmodern}
+
+
+\PassOptionsToPackage{english}{babel}
+\usepackage[english]{babel}
+\lang{english}
+
+\usepackage{graphicx}
+\graphicspath{ %
+        {@TEST_FOLDER@/unicode_datadir/} %
+        {@TEST_FOLDER@/} %
+        {@DATA_FOLDER@/} %
+}
+
+
+\makeatletter
+\@ifpackageloaded{hyperref}{}{
+   \usepackage{url}
+   \newcommand{\phantomsection}{}
+   \newcommand{\hyperlink}[2]{#2}
+   \newcommand{\href}[2]{\expandafter\url\expandafter{#1}}
+}
+\makeatother
+
+
+\usepackage{chords}
+
+\title{Guitar songbook}
+\author{The Patacrep Team}
+
+\newindex{titleidx}{unicode_title}
+\newauthorindex{authidx}{unicode_auth}
+
+
+\notenamesout{A}{B}{C}{D}{E}{F}{G}
+
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\maketitle
+
+
+\showindex{\songindexname}{titleidx}
+\showindex{\authorindexname}{authidx}
+
+% list of chords
+\ifchorded
+  \ifdiagram
+     \phantomsection
+     \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\chordlistname}
+     \chords
+  \fi
+\fi
+
+\phantomsection
+\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\songlistname}
+
+\begin{songs}{titleidx,authidx}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% songs/./nonbreak.sgc
+
+\selectlanguage{english}
+
+\beginsong{Song with non breakable space}[
+  by={
+        Author with non breaking space chars  },
+]
+
+
+
+
+\begin{verse}
+    Non break
+\end{verse}
+
+\endsong
+
+\end{songs}
+
+
+
+
+\end{document}
diff --git a/test/test_compilation/unicode_datadir/songs/nonbreak.sgc b/test/test_compilation/unicode_datadir/songs/nonbreak.sgc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..841d9acb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_compilation/unicode_datadir/songs/nonbreak.sgc
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{title : Song with non breakable space}
+{by: Author with non breaking space chars}
+{lang: en}
+
+Non break
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index aa6c7c00..1b6a3337 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ envlist = py34, lint
 
 [testenv]
 commands = {envpython} setup.py test
+passenv = TRAVIS
 deps =
 
 [testenv:lint]