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[ChristsLittleFlock]

The other day, I was trying to write a program to output an RSS feed. I used XmlWriter with StringWriter for the output. However, I noticed that the XML document consistently output an encoding of UTF16, despite setting XMLWriterSettings.Encoding to UTF-8.

In short, the solution was to create a StringWriter that supported changing the encoding. In this instance, the encoding can be passed to the constructor.

The class follows:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace Azavia.IO
{
    public class StringWriterWithEncoding : StringWriter
    {
        private Encoding _encoding;
        public StringWriterWithEncoding(Encoding encoding)
            : base()
        {
            _encoding = encoding;
        }
        public override Encoding Encoding
        {
            get
            {
                return _encoding;
            }
        }
    }
}