diff --git a/datafusion/substrait/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/substrait/Cargo.toml
index 69bf4e8bcda0..d9be5d1d11e2 100644
--- a/datafusion/substrait/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/substrait/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["fs"] }
 uuid = { version = "1.17.0", features = ["v4"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-datafusion = { workspace = true, features = ["nested_expressions"] }
+datafusion = { workspace = true, features = ["nested_expressions", "unicode_expressions"] }
 datafusion-functions-aggregate = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 tokio = { workspace = true }