diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index bb059413e..fc06e33bb 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from lib.core.enums import OS
 from lib.core.revision import getRevisionNumber
 
 # sqlmap version (<major>.<minor>.<month>.<monthly commit>)
-VERSION = "1.0.7.35"
+VERSION = "1.0.7.36"
 REVISION = getRevisionNumber()
 STABLE = VERSION.count('.') <= 2
 VERSION_STRING = "sqlmap/%s#%s" % (VERSION, "stable" if STABLE else "dev")
diff --git a/lib/techniques/union/use.py b/lib/techniques/union/use.py
index 975b88c96..fa8e39f09 100644
--- a/lib/techniques/union/use.py
+++ b/lib/techniques/union/use.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ from lib.core.settings import MAX_BUFFERED_PARTIAL_UNION_LENGTH
 from lib.core.settings import NULL
 from lib.core.settings import SQL_SCALAR_REGEX
 from lib.core.settings import TURN_OFF_RESUME_INFO_LIMIT
+from lib.core.settings import UNICODE_ENCODING
 from lib.core.threads import getCurrentThreadData
 from lib.core.threads import runThreads
 from lib.core.unescaper import unescaper
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ def _oneShotUnionUse(expression, unpack=True, limited=False):
             output = extractRegexResult(r"(?P<result>(<row.+?/>)+)", page)
             if output:
                 try:
-                    root = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring("<root>%s</root>" % output)
+                    root = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring("<root>%s</root>" % output.encode(UNICODE_ENCODING))
                     retVal = ""
                     for column in kb.dumpColumns:
                         base64 = True
@@ -128,6 +129,8 @@ def _oneShotUnionUse(expression, unpack=True, limited=False):
 
                 except xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError:
                     pass
+                else:
+                    retVal = getUnicode(retVal)
 
         if retVal is not None:
             retVal = getUnicode(retVal, kb.pageEncoding)
diff --git a/txt/checksum.md5 b/txt/checksum.md5
index b88a92e87..69ae87c7e 100644
--- a/txt/checksum.md5
+++ b/txt/checksum.md5
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ e60456db5380840a586654344003d4e6  lib/core/readlineng.py
 5ef56abb8671c2ca6ceecb208258e360  lib/core/replication.py
 99a2b496b9d5b546b335653ca801153f  lib/core/revision.py
 7c15dd2777af4dac2c89cab6df17462e  lib/core/session.py
-02b122c6229e1c4b6ab42575b5200783  lib/core/settings.py
+8f00825e5fa85985910b681359845e6e  lib/core/settings.py
 7af83e4f18cab6dff5e67840eb65be80  lib/core/shell.py
 23657cd7d924e3c6d225719865855827  lib/core/subprocessng.py
 0bc2fae1dec18cdd11954b22358293f2  lib/core/target.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ cc9c82cfffd8ee9b25ba3af6284f057e  lib/techniques/error/__init__.py
 cc9c82cfffd8ee9b25ba3af6284f057e  lib/techniques/__init__.py
 cc9c82cfffd8ee9b25ba3af6284f057e  lib/techniques/union/__init__.py
 f5d6884cdeed28281187c111d3e49e3b  lib/techniques/union/test.py
-d28a3e7ba152504a56be957a10faa1af  lib/techniques/union/use.py
+4342d76e9f8d40d8367ae95517aaa4ee  lib/techniques/union/use.py
 2dfc03a7322c46deb2e5353a7fd4be5e  lib/utils/api.py
 8cdc8c1e663c3b92a756fb7b02cc3c02  lib/utils/crawler.py
 393f8fd1684308213e1d2e6a9d4258c2  lib/utils/deps.py