why does the Xdocument give me a utf16 declaration?

Question

i\'m creating a XDocument like this:

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

when i save the document li

Answer 1

You will need to set the StreamWriter.Encoding to use UTF-8 instead of Unicode (UTF-16)

Seeing as it's not a StreamWriter this answer is only left for posterity.