C#•13mo ago

❔ How to stop WebClient.DownloadString encoding apostrophies?

Does anyone know why WebClient.DownloadString encodes certain characters (e.g. apostrophe) even when .Encoding set to UTF8? E.g. "If you don't shoot fast enough" comes back as: "If you don't shoot fast enough"

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nathanAjacobs•13mo ago

Isn't ' an html escape character? Are you downloading a wep page? If so, that's probably the text is in the actual html

stigzlerOP•13mo ago

Not sure - downloading from an API - guess it must be html encoding as I'm getting the above text directly via the VS debugger from the direct result of the DonwloadString Method

nathanAjacobs•13mo ago

Maybe have a look at this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.httputility.htmldecode?view=net-7.0&redirectedfrom=MSDN#System_Web_HttpUtility_HtmlDecode_System_String_ Or this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.webutility?view=net-7.0

stigzlerOP•13mo ago

Yep - fixed it with HtmlDecode. Thanks, dude

Angius•13mo ago

Also: don't use WebClient, it's deprecated, use HttpClient instead

Accord•13mo ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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❔ How to stop WebClient.DownloadString encoding apostrophies?