Index: RPC-XML-0.60/lib/RPC/XML.pm
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--- RPC-XML-0.60.orig/lib/RPC/XML.pm
+++ RPC-XML-0.60/lib/RPC/XML.pm
@@ -969,7 +969,9 @@ sub as_string
 {
     my $self = shift;
 
-    '<fault><value>' . $self->SUPER::as_string . '</value></fault>';
+    my $text = '<fault><value>' . $self->SUPER::as_string . '</value></fault>';
+    utf8::downgrade($text) if(utf8::is_utf8($text));
+    $text;
 }
 
 # Because of the slight diff above, length() has to be different from struct
@@ -1249,6 +1251,7 @@ sub as_string
             '</value></param></params>';
     }
     $text .= '</methodResponse>';
+    utf8::downgrade($text) if(utf8::is_utf8($text));
 
     $text;
 }