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❔ StreamWriter weird output - C#

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❔ StreamWriter weird output

im trying to serialize xml with stream writer but im getting these weird characters at the beginning. any idea what are these?

using MemoryStream resultStream = new MemoryStream();
using StreamWriter xmlWriter = new StreamWriter(resultStream, Encoding.UTF8);
xml.Save(xmlWriter);

using MemoryStream resultStream = new MemoryStream();
using StreamWriter xmlWriter = new StreamWriter(resultStream, Encoding.UTF8);
xml.Save(xmlWriter);