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POASP.NET: Will Saving an XmlDocument to the Response.OutputStream honor the encoding?
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copied!<p>i want to send the xml of an <code>XmlDocument</code> object to the HTTP client, but i'm concerned that the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/543319/how-to-return-xml-in-asp-net/543431#543431">suggested soltuion</a> might not honor the encoding that the <code>Response</code> has been set to use:</p> <pre><code>public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { XmlDocument doc = GetXmlToShow(context); context.Response.ContentType = "text/xml"; context.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; context.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); context.Response.Cache.SetAllowResponseInBrowserHistory(true); doc.Save(context.Response.OutputStream); </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>What if i changed the encoding to something else, <strong>Unicode</strong> for instance:</p> <pre><code>public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { XmlDocument doc = GetXmlToShow(context); context.Response.ContentType = "text/xml"; context.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode; context.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); context.Response.Cache.SetAllowResponseInBrowserHistory(true); doc.Save(context.Response.OutputStream); } </code></pre> <p>Will the <code>Response.OutputStream</code> translate the binary data that's being written to it on the fly, and make it Unicode?</p> <p>Or is the <code>Response.ContentEncoding</code> just <em>informative</em>?</p> <p>If the ContentEncoding is just informative, what content encoding will the follow text strings come back in?</p> <pre><code>context.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode; context.Response.Write("Hello World"); context.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; context.Response.Write("Hello World"); context.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF16; context.Response.Write("Hello World"); context.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII; context.Response.Write("Hello World"); context.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.BigEndianUnicode; context.Response.Write("Hello World"); </code></pre>

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