Getting an UTF-8 response with httpclient in Windows Store apps

Question

I\'m building a Windows Store app, but I\'m stuck at getting a UTF-8 response from an API.

This is the code:

using (HttpClient client = new HttpClien         


        

Answer 1

Instead of using response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync() directly you could use response.Content.ReadAsBufferAsync() pointed by @Kiewic as follows:

var buffer = await response.Content.ReadAsBufferAsync();
var byteArray = buffer.ToArray();
var responseString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);

This is working in my case and I guess that using UTF8 should solve most of the issues. Now go figure why there is no way to do this using ReadAsStringAsync :)