Resolved Download web page, and convert from UTF-8 to ANSI/Latin1?

[littlebigman]

Hello

I'm using the following asynchronous code to download a web page and use a regex (not shown) to extract bits of infos:

Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub AlertStringDownloaded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs)
	    If e.Cancelled = False AndAlso e.Error Is Nothing Then
	        Dim Content As String
	
	        RichTextBox1.Text = CStr(e.Result)
	        RichTextBox1.Refresh()
	
	    End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    	'Coded in UTF-8
      Dim URL As String = "http://www.acme.com"

      Dim webClient As New WebClient

      AddHandler webClient.DownloadStringCompleted, AddressOf AlertStringDownloaded

      RichTextBox1.Clear()

      'Synchronous DownloadString freezes UI while waiting for web page 
      webClient.DownloadStringAsync(New Uri(URL))

      'Go to AlertStringDownloaded

    End Sub
End Class

Problem is, the web page is in UTF-8 while RichTextBox and MessageBox display data in ANSI (accented characters are displayed as funny characters). Is there an easy way to convert data returned in e.Result from UTF-8 to ANSI?

Thank you.

 

[littlebigman]

Just configure the WebClient object accordingly:

webClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8