i'm creating a XDocument like this:

XDocument doc = new XDocument(
new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"));

when i save the document like this (doc.Save(@"c:\tijd\file2.xml");) , i get this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

which is ok.

but i want to return the content as xml, and i found the following code:

 var wr = new StringWriter(); 
            doc.Save(wr); 
            string s = (wr.GetStringBuilder().ToString());

this code works, but then the string 's' starts with this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" standalone="yes"?>

so it changed from utf8 to utf16, and that's not what i want, because now i can't read it in internet explorer.

Is there a way to prevent this behaviour?

c# linq-to-xml
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