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:

protected override async void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
{
    string get = await GetResultsAsync("http://saskir.medinet.se");

    resultsTextBox.Text = get;
}

private async Task<string> GetResultsAsync(string uri)
{
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

    return await client.GetStringAsync(uri);
}

The problem is that when i try to debug the application, it gives me an error with this message:

The character set provided in ContentType is invalid. Cannot read content as string using an invalid character set.

I guess this is because the website have some Swedish char, but i can't find how to change the encoding of the response. Anyone can guide me plz?

Answer 1

In case you want a more generic method, following works in my UWP case in case someone has one with Unicode, would be great add the if:

var response = await httpclient.GetAsync(urisource);

if (checkencoding)
{
    var contenttype = response.Content.Headers.First(h => h.Key.Equals("Content-Type"));
    var rawencoding = contenttype.Value.First();

    if (rawencoding.Contains("utf8") || rawencoding.Contains("UTF-8"))
    {
        var bytes = await response.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync();
        return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
    }
}