How to GetBytes() in C# with UTF8 encoding with BOM?

Question

I\'m having a problem with UTF8 encoding in my asp.net mvc 2 application in C#. I\'m trying let user download a simple text file from a string. I am trying to get bytes arra

Answer 1

Remember that .NET strings are all unicode while there stay in memory, so if you can see your csvString correctly with the debugger the problem is writing the file.

In my opinion you should return a FileResult with the same encoding that the files. Try setting the returning File encoding,