[Mono-dev] Differences in XmlSerializer.Serialize(stream, object)

[Tom Philpot]

On Mono, XmlSerializer.Serialize(object, stream) uses the default encoding for the platform. .NET appears not to specify an encoding, as evidenced by the output from the code below.

Due to the way it currently works on Mono, Unicode characters don't get serialized and deserialized on Mono correctly when using the XmlSerializer.Serialize(object, stream) constructor:

Here's the example code:
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