WPF WebBrowser and special characters like german “umlaute”

Question

I use the WPF WebBrowser Control in my app. I have a file (mht) which contains german umlaute (ä ö ü). Now, I load this this file with .Navigate(path) but the Problem is, th

Answer 1

This is very quirky.

1. My solution was to put an explicit meta tag in my HTML file - "My Page.html"

2. Then using the standard Web Browser .NET control I then created a URI object first.

   webBrowser1.Url = new Uri("My Page.html");
   

3. Then draw the page using the refresh method.

   webBrowser1.Refresh();
   

Note if you use the Navigate method directly it fails to pick up the utf-8 directive, but the URI and refresh approach does.

Quirky, but it works.