When saving an XmlDocument, it ignores the encoding in the XmlDeclaration (UTF8) and uses UTF16

Question

i have the following code:

var doc = new XmlDocument();

XmlDeclaration xmlDeclaration = doc.CreateXmlDeclaration(\"1.0\", \"UTF-8\", null);
doc.AppendChild(         


        

Answer 1

I use the following method, it writes it out pretty and as UTF-8

public static string Beautify(XmlDocument doc)
{
    string xmlString = null;
    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream()) {
        XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings {
            Encoding = new UTF8Encoding(false),
            Indent = true,
            IndentChars = "  ",
            NewLineChars = "\r\n",
            NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Replace
        };
        using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(ms, settings)) {
            doc.Save(writer);
        }
        xmlString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
    }
    return xmlString;
}

Call it like:

File.WriteAllText(fileName, Utilities.Beautify(xmlDocument));