Escaping Unicode string in XmlElement despite writing XML in UTF-8

Question

For a given XmlElement, I need to be able to set the inner text to an escaped version of the Unicode string, despite the document ultimately being encoded in UT

Answer 1

If you ask XmlWriter to produce ASCII output, it should give you character references for all non-ASCII content.

var settings = new XmlWriterSettings {Encoding = Encoding.ASCII, OmitXmlDeclaration = true};

The output is still valid UTF-8, because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8.