Support unicode text in CDATA fields by leaving the unicode strings alone

Author: rcoup

xmltodict.py

@@ -73,10 +73,9 @@ def CharacterData(self, data):
 		"""SAX character data event handler"""
 		if data.strip():
 			data = data.replace("&lt;", "<")
-			data = data.encode()
 			if self._inCode:
 				if self._mthdCode:
-					self._mthdCode += "%s%s" % (code_linesep, data)
+					self._mthdCode += u"%s%s" % (code_linesep, data)
 				else:
 					self._mthdCode = data
 			else: