Issue #21849: Fixed xmlrpclib serialization of non-ASCII unicode strings in
the multiprocessing module.
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
index e4d520f..463d472 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
@@ -454,10 +454,10 @@
         return self._loads(s)
 
 def _xml_dumps(obj):
-    return xmlrpclib.dumps((obj,), None, None, None, 1).encode('utf8')
+    return xmlrpclib.dumps((obj,), None, None, None, 1)
 
 def _xml_loads(s):
-    (obj,), method = xmlrpclib.loads(s.decode('utf8'))
+    (obj,), method = xmlrpclib.loads(s)
     return obj
 
 class XmlListener(Listener):