[Mono-dev] Xml output

[Atsushi Eno]

Hi,

> I get weird results when using XmlWriter. The first line contains characters
> that don't appear to be legal. 
> 
> <EF><BB><BF><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

There is nothing weird: it is a set of UTF-8 byte order mark bytes.

In case you don't want byte order marks in your output, set

	XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings ();
	settings.Encoding = new UTF8Encoding (false);
	XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Creat (settings);

Atsushi Eno