Huw Jones added the comment:
The workaround I am using is to manually encode/decode.
For the MWE, this means encoding on the creation side
```
shared_list = smm.ShareableList([s.encode() for s in strings])
```
and decoding before using the string
```
for enc_str in shared_list:
string
New submission from Huw Jones :
I've experienced a UnicodeDecodeError when adding unicode strings that contain
multibye utf-8 characters into a shareable list.
My observation is that ShareableList chunks the list of strings before sending
it over the process boundary, however this chu