How to return xml as UTF-8 instead of UTF-16

Question

I am using a routine that serializes . It works, but when downloaded to the browser I see a blank page. I can view the page source or open the download

Answer 1

You can use a StringWriter that will force UTF8. Here is one way to do it:

public class Utf8StringWriter : StringWriter
{
    // Use UTF8 encoding but write no BOM to the wire
    public override Encoding Encoding
    {
         get { return new UTF8Encoding(false); } // in real code I'll cache this encoding.
    }
}

and then use the Utf8StringWriter writer in your code.

using (StringWriter writer = new Utf8StringWriter())
{
    XmlSerializer xml = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    xml.Serialize(writer, Data);
    httpContextBase.Response.Write(writer);
}

answer is inspired by Serializing an object as UTF-8 XML in .NET