Google Translate Api and Special Characters

Question

I've recently started using the google translate API inside a c# project. I am trying to translate some text from english to french. I am having issues with some special characters though.

For example the word Company comes thru as Société instead of Société as it should. Is there some way in code I can convert these to the correct special characters? ie (é to é)

Thanks

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Answer 1

I ran into this same exact issue. If you're using the WebClient class to download the json response from google, try setting the Encoding property to UTF8.

using(var webClient = new WebClient { Encoding = Encoding.UTF8 })
{
    string json = webClient.DownloadString(someUri);
    ...
}