diff --git a/src/mwparserfromhell/parser/ctokenizer/tokenizer.c b/src/mwparserfromhell/parser/ctokenizer/tokenizer.c
index ba74f13..5b353e9 100644
--- a/src/mwparserfromhell/parser/ctokenizer/tokenizer.c
+++ b/src/mwparserfromhell/parser/ctokenizer/tokenizer.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ init_tokenizer_text(TokenizerInput *text)
     text->object = Py_None;
     Py_INCREF(Py_None);
     text->length = 0;
-    text->kind = PyUnicode_WCHAR_KIND;
+    text->kind = PyUnicode_1BYTE_KIND;
     text->data = NULL;
 }