using System;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.IO;

using System.IO.Abstractions;

using System.IO.Abstractions.TestingHelpers;

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        var sap = new Sapt();

        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(sap.GetType());

        var sw = new StringWriter();

        serializer.Serialize(sw, sap);

        var xml = sw.ToString(); // this will be utf-16

        Console.WriteLine(xml);

​

        // scenario where deserialization might fail

        var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml);

        // var bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(xml); // <-- unless the bytes match

        var ms = new MemoryStream(bytes);

        var reader = new XmlTextReader(ms);

        var result = serializer.Deserialize(reader);

    }

}

​

[Serializable]

public class Sapt 

{

    public string Code {get;set;} = "123";

}