1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rexml/xmldecl.rb b/lib/rexml/xmldecl.rb
index 81d3057732..361e4b7106 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/xmldecl.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/xmldecl.rb
@@ -109,20 +109,9 @@ module REXML
     end
 
     private
-    def normalized_encoding_name(_encoding)
-      if _encoding == ::Encoding::UTF_16BE
-        "UTF-16"
-      else
-        return _encoding.name
-      end
-    end
-
     def content(enc)
       rv = "version='#@version'"
-      if @writeencoding || enc.to_s !~ /\Autf-8\z/i
-        encoding_name = normalized_encoding_name(enc)
-        rv << " encoding='#{encoding_name}'"
-      end
+      rv << " encoding='#{enc}'" if @writeencoding || enc !~ /utf-8/i
       rv << " standalone='#@standalone'" if @standalone
       rv
     end