UTF-8 To Base-64

[jggtz]

I'm trying to convert a xml to byte array using ADO Stream object
and after that convert it to Base-64 using Chilkat to build a json request


The problem is the next:
---The original xml has: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
When I convert the byte array back to UTF-8 to check the conversion, I get only
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
the same occurs with the Base-64 it doesn't has: encoding="utf-8"

What I''m doing wrong?
Are there other ways to do it?

Thanks!

[DataMiser]

Hard to say what you may be doing wrong if you do not show the code you are using to get that result.