diff --git a/src/SoapCore/SoapEndpointMiddleware.cs b/src/SoapCore/SoapEndpointMiddleware.cs
index ba3e315f..a1b3642f 100644
--- a/src/SoapCore/SoapEndpointMiddleware.cs
+++ b/src/SoapCore/SoapEndpointMiddleware.cs
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ bool TryGetRequestValue(string key, out StringValues value)
 			context.Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
 
 			using var ms = new MemoryStream();
-			XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(ms, new XmlWriterSettings() { Encoding = new UTF8Encoding(true) });
+			XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(ms, new XmlWriterSettings() { Encoding = new UTF8Encoding(false) });
 			XmlDictionaryWriter dictionaryWriter = XmlDictionaryWriter.CreateDictionaryWriter(writer);
 
 			bodyWriter.WriteBodyContents(dictionaryWriter);