error formatting byte to string ?

[kimrune]

Hey...

Hope someone knows the answer for this :)

 

I'm using this code to grab content from an URL.

The problem is, when displaying the String s all the chars æ, ø, and å is not displayed right.. They come out as ? or x or some other cryptic characters...

How can I display the characters correctly?

 

This is the code:

 

Dim wc As New WebClient

Dim strArray As Array

Dim s As String

Dim b() As Byte

 

b = wc.DownloadData(url)

s = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(b)

 

 

Would appreciate any help I can get :)

[PlausiblyDamp]

What character set is the webpage encoded in?

you may want to try replacing the line

 

s = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(b)

with one of the following

 

s = Encoding.Unicode.GetString

or

s = Encoding.UTF8.GetString