--- a/xmlclass/xmlclass.py	Wed Nov 02 14:23:24 2016 +0300
+++ b/xmlclass/xmlclass.py	Tue Nov 08 18:06:30 2016 +0300
@@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@
         return tree, None 
     
     def Dumps(self, xml_obj):
-        return etree.tostring(xml_obj)
+        return etree.tostring(xml_obj, encoding='utf-8')
     
     def Loads(self, xml_string):
         return etree.fromstring(xml_string, self)