[Vobject] saving unicode vcard

[Anil]

I am reading some data from a database in UTF8. I convert the data
into unicode. I want to save it to a vcard file. Should this data be
written as Unicode or UTF8?

I am doing something like this now:

            f = codecs.open(fname, "w", 'utf-8')
            f.write(j.serialize().decode('utf-8'))
            f.close()

But in the end, the file inside has escaped-strings (as per VI). Is
that unicode?

I import this new file back into database as UTF (I do a encode), but
when my app reads the data back, I get some gibbirish. The umlauts
don't show up properly.

What am I doing wrong? Should the file contain Unicode data or UTF data?

See attachment in this email - thats the file that got written.
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