Error reading XML with UTF-16 in header

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I have a program that reads an xml file. The file is given to me, I don't create it.

I'm using

C#

using (XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(Filename))
         {

           while (reader.Read())

and it works fine unless the xml file has
encoding="utf-16"
in it. In that case I get
An unhandled exception of type 'System.Xml.XmlException' occurred in System.Xml.dll
Additional information: There is no Unicode byte order mark. Cannot switch to Unicode.

changing the xml file to say utf-8 works, but I don't want to have to edit the file every time. Is there a way to fix this in the reader code?
the complete XML file is

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<LapSyncData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <DriverData>
    <Driver position="1" name="Bob Smith (1)" carNum="4" laps="4" lapTime="13.88" elapsedTime="55.52" pace="50.00" fastLap="10.83" fastLapOn="3" avgLap="12.50" done="True" DriverID="8b8f1514-75d6-4aaf-b537-fe005d3b16b4" />
  </DriverData>
  <RaceData>
    <Race Version="0.1" className="4S" classID="4ab689ac-67e2-4cdb-bf9a-a0109b8bc7e8" raceStatus="complete" raceLength="4" timeElapsed="58" timeRemaining="0" raceNumber="1" totalRaces="5" round="1" />
  </RaceData>
</LapSyncData>

What I have tried:

I tried using (XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(Filename, Encoding.GetEncoding("UTF-8"))) but if that will work then I coudn't figure out teh syntax.

Posted 10-Aug-16 5:24am

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Updated 10-Aug-16 6:04am

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Kenneth Haugland 10-Aug-16 11:44am

Perhaps:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4520184/how-to-detect-the-character-encoding-of-a-text-file

[no name] 10-Aug-16 11:48am

The XML file does not contain the ByteOrderMark (BOM). For a test, open the file with Notepad and save it as Unicode. Notepad will insert the BOM at the begining of the file.

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2016-08-10T06:04:00

Solution 1

Try using a StreamReader as the source for your XmlTextReader:

C#

using (TextReader file = File.OpenText(Filename))
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(file))
{
    ...
}

Posted 10-Aug-16 6:04am

Richard Deeming