I'm having a problem with UTF8 encoding in my asp.net mvc 2 application in C#. I'm trying let user download a simple text file from a string. I am trying to get bytes array with the following line:
var x = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(csvString);
but when I return it for download using:
return File(x, ..., ...);
I get a file which is without BOM so I don't get Croatian characters shown up correctly. This is because my bytes array does not include BOM after encoding. I triend inserting those bytes manually and then it shows up correctly, but that's not the best way to do it.
I also tried creating UTF8Encoding class instance and passing a boolean value (true) to its constructor to include BOM, but it doesn't work either.
Anyone has a solution? Thanks!
Best Answer
Try like this:
The reason is that the UTF8Encoding constructor that takes a boolean parameter doesn't do what you would expect:
The resulting array would contain a single byte with the value of 97. There's no BOM because UTF8 doesn't require a BOM.