diff --git a/gui/characterEditor.py b/gui/characterEditor.py
index b96fe41cb..76e0b296a 100644
--- a/gui/characterEditor.py
+++ b/gui/characterEditor.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ from wx.lib.agw.floatspin import FloatSpin
 
 from gui.utils.clipboard import toClipboard, fromClipboard
 
-import utils.roman as roman
+import roman
 import re
 
 pyfalog = Logger(__name__)
diff --git a/gui/utils/roman.py b/gui/utils/roman.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a75ccadc..000000000
--- a/gui/utils/roman.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-"""Convert to and from Roman numerals"""
-
-__author__ = "Mark Pilgrim (f8dy@diveintopython.org)"
-__version__ = "1.4"
-__date__ = "8 August 2001"
-__copyright__ = """Copyright (c) 2001 Mark Pilgrim
-
-This program is part of "Dive Into Python", a free Python tutorial for
-experienced programmers.  Visit http://diveintopython.org/ for the
-latest version.
-
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the Python 2.1.1 license, available at
-http://www.python.org/2.1.1/license.html
-"""
-
-import re
-
-
-# Define exceptions
-class RomanError(Exception):
-    pass
-
-
-class OutOfRangeError(RomanError):
-    pass
-
-
-class NotIntegerError(RomanError):
-    pass
-
-
-class InvalidRomanNumeralError(RomanError):
-    pass
-
-
-# Define digit mapping
-romanNumeralMap = (('M', 1000),
-                   ('CM', 900),
-                   ('D', 500),
-                   ('CD', 400),
-                   ('C', 100),
-                   ('XC', 90),
-                   ('L', 50),
-                   ('XL', 40),
-                   ('X', 10),
-                   ('IX', 9),
-                   ('V', 5),
-                   ('IV', 4),
-                   ('I', 1))
-
-
-def toRoman(n):
-    """convert integer to Roman numeral"""
-    if not isinstance(n, int):
-        raise NotIntegerError("decimals can not be converted")
-    if not (0 < n < 5000):
-        raise OutOfRangeError("number out of range (must be 1..4999)")
-
-    result = ""
-    for numeral, integer in romanNumeralMap:
-        while n >= integer:
-            result += numeral
-            n -= integer
-    return result
-
-
-# Define pattern to detect valid Roman numerals
-romanNumeralPattern = re.compile("""
-    ^                   # beginning of string
-    M{0,4}              # thousands - 0 to 4 M's
-    (CM|CD|D?C{0,3})    # hundreds - 900 (CM), 400 (CD), 0-300 (0 to 3 C's),
-                        #            or 500-800 (D, followed by 0 to 3 C's)
-    (XC|XL|L?X{0,3})    # tens - 90 (XC), 40 (XL), 0-30 (0 to 3 X's),
-                        #        or 50-80 (L, followed by 0 to 3 X's)
-    (IX|IV|V?I{0,3})    # ones - 9 (IX), 4 (IV), 0-3 (0 to 3 I's),
-                        #        or 5-8 (V, followed by 0 to 3 I's)
-    $                   # end of string
-    """, re.VERBOSE)
-
-
-def fromRoman(s):
-    """convert Roman numeral to integer"""
-    if not s:
-        raise InvalidRomanNumeralError('Input can not be blank')
-    if not romanNumeralPattern.search(s):
-        raise InvalidRomanNumeralError('Invalid Roman numeral: %s' % s)
-
-    result = 0
-    index = 0
-    for numeral, integer in romanNumeralMap:
-        while s[index:index + len(numeral)] == numeral:
-            result += integer
-            index += len(numeral)
-    return result
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5800936c0..6f8d33890 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ python-dateutil
 requests >= 2.0.0
 sqlalchemy >= 1.0.5
 markdown2
-packaging
\ No newline at end of file
+packaging
+roman
\ No newline at end of file