diff --git a/src/GEval/OptionsParser.hs b/src/GEval/OptionsParser.hs
index 61bc653..77a700d 100644
--- a/src/GEval/OptionsParser.hs
+++ b/src/GEval/OptionsParser.hs
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ specParser = GEvalSpecification
        ( long "tokenizer"
          <> short 'T'
          <> metavar "TOKENIZER"
-         <> help "Tokenizer on expected and actual output before running evaluation (makes sense mostly for metrics such BLEU), minimalistic, 13a and v14 tokenizers are implemented so far. Will be also used for tokenizing text into features when in --worst-features and --most-worsening-features modes." ))
+         <> help "Tokenizer on expected and actual output before running evaluation (makes sense mostly for metrics such BLEU), minimalistic, 13a, v14 and character-by-character tokenizers are implemented so far. Will be also used for tokenizing text into features when in --worst-features and --most-worsening-features modes." ))
   <*> ( optional . strOption $
         ( long "gonito-host"
           <> metavar "GONITO_HOST"
diff --git a/src/Text/Tokenizer.hs b/src/Text/Tokenizer.hs
index c12a3e7..4113374 100644
--- a/src/Text/Tokenizer.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Tokenizer.hs
@@ -9,19 +9,22 @@ import Data.Monoid ((<>))
 
 import Text.Regex.PCRE.Heavy
 
-data Tokenizer = Minimalistic | V13a | V14International
+data Tokenizer = Minimalistic | V13a | V14International | CharacterByCharacter
   deriving (Eq)
 
 instance Show Tokenizer where
   show Minimalistic = "minimalistic"
   show V13a = "13a"
   show V14International = "v14"
+  show CharacterByCharacter = "character-by-character"
 
 instance Read Tokenizer where
   readsPrec _ ('m':'i':'n':'i':'m':'a':'l':'i':'s':'t':'i':'c':theRest) =
             [(Minimalistic, theRest)]
   readsPrec _ ('1':'3':'a':theRest) = [(V13a, theRest)]
   readsPrec _ ('v':'1':'4':theRest) = [(V14International, theRest)]
+  readsPrec _ ('c':'h':'a':'r':'a':'c':'t':'e':'r':'-':'b':'y':'-':'c':'h':'a':'r':'a':'c':'t':'e':'r':theRest) =
+    [(CharacterByCharacter, theRest)]
 
 tokenize :: Maybe Tokenizer -> T.Text -> [T.Text]
 tokenize mTokenizer = T.words . (tokenizeWithSpaces mTokenizer)
@@ -77,5 +80,14 @@ tokenizeWithSpaces (Just V13a) t = T.strip tTokenized
           $ T.replace "-\n" ""
           $ T.replace "<skipped>" "" t
 
+tokenizeWithSpaces (Just CharacterByCharacter) t = T.intercalate " "
+                                                   $ map T.singleton
+                                                   $ map escapeSpace
+                                                   $ T.unpack t
+
 toSpace :: T.Text -> T.Text
 toSpace _ = space
+
+escapeSpace :: Char -> Char
+escapeSpace ' ' = '_'
+escapeSpace c = c
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
index 83a04e1..e65fb7a 100644
--- a/test/Spec.hs
+++ b/test/Spec.hs
@@ -455,6 +455,9 @@ main = hspec $ do
       tokenize (Just V13a) "To be or not to be, that's the question." `shouldBe`
         ["To", "be", "or", "not", "to", "be",
          ",", "that's", "the", "question", "."]
+    it "simple utterance with 'character-by-character' tokenizer" $ do
+      tokenize (Just CharacterByCharacter) "To be or not to be." `shouldBe`
+        ["T", "o", "_", "b", "e", "_", "o", "r", "_", "n", "o", "t", "_", "t", "o", "_", "b", "e", "."]
   describe "submit" $ do
     it "current branch" $ do
       runGitTest "branch-test" (\_ -> getCurrentBranch) `shouldReturn` "develop"