Encoding changes from UTF-8 to UTF-16 upon publish

Question

Hi All, 
 Topics in SDL LiveContent Architect show file encoding of utf-8, but upon publishing the encoding changes to utf-16, how would I go about retaining the encoding to utf-8 upon publishing? 
 
 Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Dave De Meyer · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 
May we please ask you to add that short-and-sweet piece of information: your software version number? 
 
The system stores the xml file information in the database as UTF-16, which has to do with the XML parsers involved. The API accepts UTF-8 (and some other less used formats) on the input side, but storage and the output side (like publishing) will be in UTF-16. May we ask you why UTF-8 on the output side is important to you? Technically you convert any xml file from UTF-16 to UTF-8?

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Encoding changes from UTF-8 to UTF-16 upon publish