diff --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py
index a857a155cdd..c0d87cd5591 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ import sqlite3
 con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
 cur = con.cursor()
 
-AUSTRIA = "\xd6sterreich"
+AUSTRIA = "Österreich"
 
-# by default, rows are returned as Unicode
+# by default, rows are returned as str
 cur.execute("select ?", (AUSTRIA,))
 row = cur.fetchone()
 assert row[0] == AUSTRIA
diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index e6b8b95d2aa..eaea7ae390b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -537,8 +537,8 @@ Connection Objects
 
       Using this attribute you can control what objects are returned for the ``TEXT``
       data type. By default, this attribute is set to :class:`str` and the
-      :mod:`sqlite3` module will return Unicode objects for ``TEXT``. If you want to
-      return bytestrings instead, you can set it to :class:`bytes`.
+      :mod:`sqlite3` module will return :class:`str` objects for ``TEXT``.
+      If you want to return :class:`bytes` instead, you can set it to :class:`bytes`.
 
       You can also set it to any other callable that accepts a single bytestring
       parameter and returns the resulting object.