[Zope] Problem with ZPsycopgDA and unicode-output

I got a problem regarding the Database Output via ZPsycopgDA Adaptor in Zope 2.9: 1. My PostgresDB is encoded in UTF-8 2. My Z Psycopg 2 DB Connector is set to UTF-8 However the output of my db over the connector is somehow wrong encoded: An Example: In my utf-8 db it says: "Bitte auswählen" The db connector, however returns the following: print repr(dbstring) 'Bitte ausw\xc3\xa4hlen' As you can see, it looks like correct unicode, but in fact the leading "u" is missing and a check with instance(dbstring, unicode) returns FALSE! So actually it seems to give me an ordinary string but no real unicode-string! My Question: Is there any way to setup ZPsycopg2 DB Connector to return real unicode-strings from my DB? Regards Marcel