diff --git a/laser_encoders/laser_tokenizer.py b/laser_encoders/laser_tokenizer.py
index 915b70b2..5cbd2a4e 100644
--- a/laser_encoders/laser_tokenizer.py
+++ b/laser_encoders/laser_tokenizer.py
@@ -24,11 +24,13 @@
 
 import sentencepiece as spm
 from sacremoses import MosesDetokenizer, MosesPunctNormalizer
+from unicategories import categories
 
 from laser_encoders.download_models import LaserModelDownloader
 from laser_encoders.language_list import LASER2_LANGUAGE, LASER3_LANGUAGE, SPM_LANGUAGE
 
 SPACE_NORMALIZER = re.compile(r"\s+")
+NON_PRINT_CHARS = set(c for c in categories["C"].characters())
 
 logging.basicConfig(
     stream=sys.stdout,
@@ -59,6 +61,9 @@ def __init__(
 
         assert spm_model.exists(), f"spm model file: {spm_model} does not exist"
         self.moses_punct_normalizer = MosesPunctNormalizer(self.lang, perl_parity=True)
+        # add parity with MOSES release-4.0
+        self.moses_punct_normalizer.substitutions[21] = ("‘", r'"')
+        self.moses_punct_normalizer.substitutions[22] = ("‚", r'"')
         self.moses_detokenizer = MosesDetokenizer()
         self.spm_encoder = spm.SentencePieceProcessor(model_file=str(self.spm_model))
 
@@ -75,7 +80,7 @@ def log(self, message: str) -> None:
 
     def tokenize(self, text: str) -> str:
         # Preprocessing
-        sentence_text = "".join(c for c in text if c.isprintable)
+        sentence_text = "".join([c if c not in NON_PRINT_CHARS else " " for c in text])
         if self.normalize_punct:
             sentence_text = self.moses_punct_normalizer.normalize(sentence_text)
         if self.descape:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 74650610..6e82f8bd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ readme = "laser_encoders/README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 
 dependencies = [
-    'sacremoses>=0.1.0',
+    'sacremoses==0.1.0',
+    'unicategories>=0.1.2',
     'sentencepiece>=0.1.99',
     'numpy>=1.21.3',
     'torch>=1.10.0',