StreamWriter and UTF-8 Byte Order Marks

Question

I\'m having an issue with StreamWriter and Byte Order Marks. The documentation seems to state that the Encoding.UTF8 encoding has byte order marks enabled but when files are

Answer 1

Seems that if the file already existed and didn't contain BOM, then it won't contain BOM when overwritten, in other words StreamWriter preserves BOM (or it's absence) when overwriting a file.