Chinese Characters Website WebClient

theEnchancedWinClient.WebClient.DownloadString("http://news.sohu.com/20050601/n225789219.shtml")

will produce garbages.

however I already put

WebClient.Encoding = New System.Text.UTF8Encoding

What should I have done?

Try each of the other standard encodings and see which works. Don't create an Encoding explicitly. The System.Text.Encoding class has a property each for the standard encodings, e.g. System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

Try each of the other standard encodings and see which works. Don't create an Encoding explicitly. The System.Text.Encoding class has a property each for the standard encodings, e.g. System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.

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System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 doesn't work
System.Text.Encoding.Unicode doesn't work.

Google is silent.

Any other answer? Anyone else tried? There has to be an easy way. Do we need to look at actual headers returned by the site?