From eed645c0c500d0919ecdf9d1753615e8345ac39b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Pyle <jhpyle@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:23:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] encode XML as bytes in render_footnotes()

`part._blob` should have the class `bytes`.
---
 docxtpl/template.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docxtpl/template.py b/docxtpl/template.py
index 0b81868..b246ca7 100644
--- a/docxtpl/template.py
+++ b/docxtpl/template.py
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ def render_footnotes(
                         else part.blob
                     )
                     xml = self.render_xml_part(xml, part, context, jinja_env)
-                    part._blob = xml
+                    part._blob = xml.encode("utf-8")
 
     def resolve_listing(self, xml):