How to change the encoding of the HttpClient response

Question

I\'m trying to learn about Async programming using VS2012 and its Async Await keyword. That is why i wrote this piece of code:

Answer 1

WinRT 8.1 C#

using Windows.Storage.Streams;
using System.Text;
using Windows.Web.Http;

// in some async function

Uri uri = new Uri("http://something" + query);
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();

IBuffer buffer = await httpClient.GetBufferAsync(uri);
string response = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer.ToArray(), 0, (int)(buffer.Length- 1));

// parse here

httpClient.Dispose();