diff -ruN roundup-1.4.8.orig/roundup/backends/back_sqlite.py roundup-1.4.8/roundup/backends/back_sqlite.py
--- roundup-1.4.8.orig/roundup/backends/back_sqlite.py	2009-03-14 07:30:03.000000000 +0900
+++ roundup-1.4.8/roundup/backends/back_sqlite.py	2009-04-23 16:26:50.000000000 +0900
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
         # sqlite3 wants us to store Unicode in the db but that's not what's
         # been done historically and it's definitely not what the other
         # backends do, so we'll stick with UTF-8
-        if sqlite_version == 3:
+        if (sqlite_version == 3) or (sqlite.version_info >= (2, 5, 0)):
             conn.text_factory = str
 
         cursor = conn.cursor()