diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
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+
+import pytest
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def change_test_dir(request, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.chdir(request.config.rootdir + '/DATA_collector')
diff --git a/tests/pytest.ini b/tests/pytest.ini
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+[pytest]
+testpaths =
+    /workspaces/DMRC_Academic_Twitter_Archive_Collector/tests
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diff --git a/tests/test_issue_2.py b/tests/test_issue_2.py
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+++ b/tests/test_issue_2.py
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+import io
+import pytest
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def json_issue_2():
+    tweet = """{"context_annotations": [{"domain": {"id": "86", "name": "Movie", "description": "A film like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"}, "entity": {"id": "1397956463998369794", "name": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"}}, 
+    {"domain": {"id": "131", "name": "Unified Twitter Taxonomy", "description": "A taxonomy of user interests. "}, "entity": {"id": "1303715075421646849", "name": "Actors"}}, {"domain": {"id": "10", "name": "Person", 
+    "description": "Named people in the world like Nelson Mandela"}, "entity": {"id": "878236727621459968", "name": "Johnny Depp", "description": "Johnny Depp"}}, {"domain": {"id": "56", "name": "Actor", 
+    "description": "An actor or actress in the world, like Kate Winslet or Leonardo DiCaprio"}, "entity": {"id": "878236727621459968", "name": "Johnny Depp", "description": "Johnny Depp"}}, {"domain": 
+    {"id": "131", "name": "Unified Twitter Taxonomy", "description": "A taxonomy of user interests. "}, "entity": {"id": "878236727621459968", "name": "Johnny Depp", "description": "Johnny Depp"}}, {"domain": 
+    {"id": "131", "name": "Unified Twitter Taxonomy", "description": "A taxonomy of user interests. "}, "entity": {"id": "1095352268046495745", "name": "Celebrities", "description": "Celebrities"}}], "entities": 
+    {"hashtags": [{"start": 97, "end": 127, "tag": "CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory"}], "mentions": [{"start": 3, "end": 12, "username": "Babygiwa", "id": "1043387532", 
+    "profile_image_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1633209667852681220/aUb4JXsD_normal.jpg", "pinned_tweet_id": "1119867901283053569", "entities": {"url": {"urls": [{"start": 0, "end": 23, "url": "https://t.co/2qVS2yErtW", 
+    "expanded_url": "http://glittersushering.com", "display_url": "glittersushering.com"}]}}, "url": "https://t.co/2qVS2yErtW", "verified": false, "name": "Yemi", "description": "Living my best life.", "protected": false, 
+    "public_metrics": {"followers_count": 10738, "following_count": 1287, "tweet_count": 353943, "listed_count": 113}, "location": "A place called forward ", "created_at": "2012-12-28T23:37:33.000Z"}], 
+    "annotations": [{"start": 14, "end": 24, "probability": 0.9762, "type": "Person", "normalized_text": "Johnny Depp"}, {"start": 98, "end": 126, "probability": 0.7921, "type": "Person", "normalized_text": "CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory"}]}, 
+    "lang": "en", "reply_settings": "everyone", "public_metrics": {"retweet_count": 2, "reply_count": 0, "like_count": 0, "quote_count": 0, "impression_count": 0}, "conversation_id": "1517074359571075072", "id": "1517074359571075072", 
+    "possibly_sensitive": false, "author_id": "1043387532", "edit_history_tweet_ids": ["1517074359571075072"], "referenced_tweets": [{"type": "retweeted", "id": "688089054999633920", "entities": {"hashtags": [{"start": 83, "end": 113, 
+    "tag": "CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory"}], "annotations": [{"start": 0, "end": 10, "probability": 0.9797, "type": "Person", "normalized_text": "Johnny Depp"}, {"start": 84, "end": 112, "probability": 0.8712, "type": "Person", 
+    "normalized_text": "CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory"}]}, "lang": "en", "reply_settings": "everyone", "public_metrics": {"retweet_count": 2, "reply_count": 0, "like_count": 0, "quote_count": 0, "impression_count": 0}, 
+    "conversation_id": "688089054999633920", "possibly_sensitive": false, "author_id": "1043387532", "edit_history_tweet_ids": ["688089054999633920"], "created_at": "2016-01-15T20:03:09.000Z", "edit_controls": {"edits_remaining": 5, 
+    "is_edit_eligible": true, "editable_until": "2016-01-15T20:33:09.000Z"}, "text": "Johnny Depp is not a normal actor. He likes abnormal roles.\rGod. I LOVE LOVE him\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\r#CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory", 
+    "author": {"profile_image_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1633209667852681220/aUb4JXsD_normal.jpg", "username": "Babygiwa", "id": "1043387532", "pinned_tweet_id": "1119867901283053569", "entities": {"url": {
+        "urls": [{"start": 0, "end": 23, "url": "https://t.co/2qVS2yErtW", "expanded_url": "http://glittersushering.com", "display_url": "glittersushering.com"}]}}, "url": "https://t.co/2qVS2yErtW", "verified": false, "name": "Yemi", 
+        "description": "Living my best life.", "protected": false, "public_metrics": {"followers_count": 10738, "following_count": 1287, "tweet_count": 353943, "listed_count": 113}, "location": "A place called forward ", 
+        "created_at": "2012-12-28T23:37:33.000Z"}}], "created_at": "2022-04-21T09:34:47.000Z", "edit_controls": {"edits_remaining": 5, "is_edit_eligible": true, "editable_until": "2022-04-21T10:04:47.000Z"}, 
+        "text": "RT @Babygiwa: Johnny Depp is not a normal actor. He likes abnormal roles.\rGod. I LOVE LOVE him\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\r#CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory", "author": {
+            "profile_image_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1633209667852681220/aUb4JXsD_normal.jpg", "username": "Babygiwa", "id": "1043387532", "pinned_tweet_id": "1119867901283053569", "entities": {
+                "url": {"urls": [{"start": 0, "end": 23, "url": "https://t.co/2qVS2yErtW", "expanded_url": "http://glittersushering.com", "display_url": "glittersushering.com"}]}}, "url": "https://t.co/2qVS2yErtW", 
+                "verified": false, "name": "Yemi", "description": "Living my best life.", "protected": false, "public_metrics": {"followers_count": 10738, "following_count": 1287, "tweet_count": 353943, "listed_count": 113}, 
+                "location": "A place called forward ", "created_at": "2012-12-28T23:37:33.000Z"}, "__twarc": {"url": "REMOVED", "version": "2.13.0", "retrieved_at": "2023-03-15T15:53:19+00:00"}}"""
+    
+    yield io.StringIO(tweet)
+
+
+def test_unicode_retweets(json_issue_2):
+    from DATA_collector.src.config import Schematype
+    from DATA_collector.src.data import process_json_data
+    tweet_count, list_of_dataframes = process_json_data(json_issue_2, csv_filepath=None, bq=None, project=None, dataset=None, subquery=None, start_date=None, end_date=None, archive_search_counts=0, tweet_count=0, schematype=Schematype.DATA, test=True)
+
+    tweets = list_of_dataframes[0]
+    csv_buffer = io.StringIO()
+    tweet_rows = tweets.to_csv(csv_buffer,index=False, escapechar='|')
+    
+    # We expec only one row:
+    assert len(tweet_rows) == 1
+
+    print(tweet_rows)
+