Need to update to unicode strings for SQLite db

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('moving template file:', /tmp/1590440904.md.tmp', 'to', '')
('[+] Creating new tag:', 'my_bugs')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/home/.local/bin/noted", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('yourpackage', 'console_scripts', 'noted')()
  File "/data/home/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/home/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/data/home/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/data/home/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/data/home/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/personal_toolkit/noted/noted.py", line 157, in add_item
    db.add_item(item_to_add)
  File "/data/personal_toolkit/noted/tagmodule/tagdb.py", line 89, in add_item
    cursor.execute('INSERT INTO info (title, details, category, refs, file, time_created) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)',(item_dict['title'].strip(), item_dict['details'].strip(), item_dict['category'].strip().lower(),','.join(item_dict['refs']), item_dict['savefile'], ts))
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.