XmlWriter encoding UTF-8 using StringWriter in C#

Question

I\'m using C# to output an xml file and Im trying to set the xml encoding value to UTF-8 but its currently outputting:

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Answer 1

Just use the output file name for the XmlWriter instead of the StringWriterWithEncoding:

var settings = new XmlWriterSettings
{
    Encoding = Encoding.UTF8,
    Indent = true
};

using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(filePathName, settings))
{
    ...