Setting encoding when retrieving webpage

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Malfunction

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hello,

im using this snippet to get the sourcecode of a webpage:

Code: 
HttpWebRequest myReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(this.currentURL);     
            WebResponse response = myReq.GetResponse();
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
            String source = reader.ReadToEnd();
            reader.Close();
            response.GetResponseStream().Close();
            this.sourcebox.Text = source;

i guess that's pretty dirty but it works (almost).
trouble is that the encoding is not correct. if the webpage's charset is utf-8 the non asci characters are not shown in the textbox.

sorry for posting nubee questions again but i couldn't find a read to use snippet on the net.
 
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