Fix for issue5040. Adding support for unicode message passing and tests for unicode message and test for Content-Length.
diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py b/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
index 86988de..cc717e0 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
@@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@
transport = Transport(use_datetime=use_datetime)
self.__transport = transport
- self.__encoding = encoding
+ self.__encoding = encoding or 'utf-8'
self.__verbose = verbose
self.__allow_none = allow_none
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@
# call a method on the remote server
request = dumps(params, methodname, encoding=self.__encoding,
- allow_none=self.__allow_none)
+ allow_none=self.__allow_none).encode(self.__encoding)
response = self.__transport.request(
self.__host,