MemoryStream from string - confusion about Encoding to use?

Assuming applicationForm is a string you read from some UTF8 text file. It will be UTF16 Unicode whatever the encoding of the source file. The conversion happened when you loaded the file into the string.

If data is saved in UTF-8, then you need to open it with UTF-8.

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