Unicode support for psycopg2 native hstore implementation

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/psycopg2.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/psycopg2.py
index 805fc72aff9d6bc628235f88c1946ee8b32cc2c3..037a06418444ea6c17fd965a208e12a00fd6f550 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/psycopg2.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/psycopg2.py
@@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ class PGDialect_psycopg2(PGDialect):
                 hstore_oids = self._hstore_oids(conn)
                 if hstore_oids is not None:
                     oid, array_oid = hstore_oids
-                    extras.register_hstore(conn, oid=oid, array_oid=array_oid)
+                    extras.register_hstore(conn, oid=oid, array_oid=array_oid,
+                                           unicode=True)
             fns.append(on_connect)
 
         if fns: