Decode special characters when parsing html mvc

Question

In my mvc web application I am trying to parse a html document. It seems to work fine but the only issue is that it gives me special charters and not parse characters like æ,å,ø etc correctly.

Here is my code

var html = new HtmlDocument();
html.LoadHtml(new WebClient().DownloadString("http://cricketforbundet.no/index.php/en/klubber"));
var root = html.DocumentNode;
var p = root.Descendants("table").FirstOrDefault().Descendants("tr").Skip(1).FirstOrDefault().ChildNodes.Where(i=>i.Name == "td").FirstOrDefault().InnerText;

I get BjÃ¸rvikaÂ Cricket Klubb in p where as I should get Bjørvika Cricket Klubb.

Any thoughts? I am using HtmlAgilityPack to parse HTML in ASP.NET

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

You have to use load instead of LoadHtml and make sure use UTF8 encoding

        WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
        HtmlDocument html = new HtmlDocument();
        html.Load(webClient.OpenRead("http://cricketforbundet.no/index.php/en/klubber"), Encoding.UTF8);
        var root = html.DocumentNode;
        var p = root.Descendants("table").FirstOrDefault().Descendants("tr").Skip(1).FirstOrDefault().ChildNodes.Where(i => i.Name == "td").FirstOrDefault().InnerText;

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