StreamWriter.Encoding Property
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Gets the Encoding in which the output is written.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Text.EncodingThe Encoding specified in the constructor for the current instance, or UTF8Encoding if an encoding was not specified.
This property is necessary for some XML scenarios where a header must be written containing the encoding used by the StreamWriter. This allows the XML code to consume an arbitrary StreamWriter and generate the correct XML header.
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