Characters in string changed after downloading HTML from the internet

Question

Using the following code, I can download the HTML of a file from the internet:

WebClient wc = new WebClient();

// ....

string downloadedFile = wc.DownloadS         


        

Answer 1

Since I am not allowed to comment (insufficient reputation), I'll have to post an additional answer. I am using Mikael's great class routinely, but I encountered a practical problem with the regex that tries to find the charset meta-info. This

Match m = new Regex(@"[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)", RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Match(html); 

fails on this

whereas this

Match m = new Regex(@"[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)""?", RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Match(html);

does not.

Thanks, Mikael.