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

I like El Marchewko's approach of using an extension, but the code did not work for me. This did:

using System.IO;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace WannaSport.Data.Integration
{
    public static class HttpContentExtension
    {
        public static async Task ReadAsStringUTF8Async(this HttpContent content)
        {
            return await content.ReadAsStringAsync(Encoding.UTF8);
        }

        public static async Task ReadAsStringAsync(this HttpContent content, Encoding encoding)
        {
            using (var reader = new StreamReader((await content.ReadAsStreamAsync()), encoding))
            {
                return reader.ReadToEnd();
            }
        }
    }
}