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Reputation: 119

C#/ Visual Studio not showing umlauts properly

I am downloading an XML-File via WebClient like this:

WebClient connect = new WebClient();
connect.DownloadStringCompleted += new DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(connect_DownloadStringCompleted);
connect.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri("http://conn.info/api/v8/search/item_short.xml?apikey=123&lang=de&q="+textBox1.Text));

Then I parse them

XElement erg = XElement.Parse(e.Result);

but the problem is, that German letters like "ü" or "ä" won't be displayed properly. Instead, I get a "?" for each of these letters in my output (on a windows phone device).

How is this solvable?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1396

Answers (2)

Gros Lalo
Gros Lalo

Reputation: 1088

I assume here that the encoding of your XML is ISO-8859-1. (I cannot access the domain you have above in your code). Try to set the encoding as follows:

connect.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");

I tested a piece of code with http://www.spiegel.de/thema/windows_phone_8/index.rss and it works for me. Please find a screenshot of the results. I circled for you the words with the special characters from the German language.

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Upvotes: 0

Najzero
Najzero

Reputation: 3212

Well, you already noted that umlauts are missing. I would suggest setting your WebClient to UTF8 mode:

connect.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

Upvotes: 1

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