How to make sure my created filedownload is UTF-8? (and not UTF-8 without BOM)

Question

i\'ve made a download function to download messages to a CSV file (code is below). Now when i open it up in notepad or notepad++ i see this:

é NY ø ╬ ║► ░ ê ö

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Answer 1

You might want to try using the UTF8Encoding class. The constructor has a parameter that determines if it should provide the BOM or not. You'll probably have to use the GetBytes-method and write the string as a series of bytes in the response, and not convert it back into a .net string object.