diff --git a/stdlib/2and3/xml/sax/saxutils.pyi b/stdlib/2and3/xml/sax/saxutils.pyi
index 53f074097..c6317c95a 100644
--- a/stdlib/2and3/xml/sax/saxutils.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2and3/xml/sax/saxutils.pyi
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class XMLGenerator(handler.ContentHandler):
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
         def __init__(self, out: Optional[Union[TextIOBase, RawIOBase, StreamWriter, StreamReaderWriter, _Writable]] = ..., encoding: str = ..., short_empty_elements: bool = ...) -> None: ...
     else:
-        def __init__(self, out: Optional[Union[TextIOBase, RawIOBase, StreamWriter, StreamReaderWriter, _Writable]] = ..., encoding: str = ...) -> None: ...
+        def __init__(self, out: Optional[Union[TextIOBase, RawIOBase, StreamWriter, StreamReaderWriter, _Writable]] = ..., encoding: Text = ...) -> None: ...
     def startDocument(self): ...
     def endDocument(self): ...
     def startPrefixMapping(self, prefix, uri): ...