Re: Xml Encoding Problem!!!

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:15:48 +0100

Vai2000 <nospam@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi All, I have an xml document which gets generated out of a process with
> utf-16 type of encoding. I am writing this to a file. How can I convert it
> to utf-8 since IE won't open the Document.
> Tried using Encoding.Unicode,Encoding.Utf8 flags in the StreamWriter but no
> luck!!!
>
> // this is the code I am using to write out
> StreamWriter sw=new StreamWriter(fileOut);
> sw.Write(content,Encoding.Unicode);
> //sw.Write(content,Encoding.Utf8);
> sw.Close();

Not sure what you're doing in that code - the StreamWriter should have
a UTF-8 encoding by default.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that. 

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