Unicode support for psycopg2 native hstore implementation

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/psycopg2.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/psycopg2.py
index ce06aab054a4a58fe750d4e6e852f72b32b31120..da333e8eb49fc37983f8e295855d9b0f9931eff8 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/psycopg2.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/psycopg2.py
@@ -392,7 +392,8 @@ 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: