Encoding with HttpClient

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I am using the HttpClient class in Windows 8. With Windows Phone, I use the WebClient class in combination with encoding to get the right encoding.

WebClient xml = new WebClient();
xml.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");

In Windows 8 it is looks like this:

HttpClient xml = new HttpClient();
HttpResponseMessage response = await xml.GetAsync(uri);                    
responsetext = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

How can I add a encoding to support German (umlaute)?

JP Alioto · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-05 23:13:02Z

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I don't have time to test right now, but have you tried using the HttpContent.ReadAsByteArrayAsync method (rather than ReadAsStringAsync) and encoding the resulting byte[] into ISO-8859-1 separately?

answered Jun 5, 2012 at 23:13

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Hoshinokoe · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-27 20:57:52Z

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Change ReadAsStringAsync to ReadAsBufferAsync and parse result with required encoding

var buffer = await response.Content.ReadAsBufferAsync();
byte [] rawBytes = new byte[buffer.Length];
using (var reader = DataReader.FromBuffer(buffer))
{
    reader.ReadBytes(rawBytes);
}

var res = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(rawBytes, 0, rawBytes.Length);

answered Dec 27, 2014 at 20:57

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