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WP7's WebBrowser.NavigateToString() and text encoding

does anyone know how to load a UTF8-encoded string using WebBrowser.NavigateToString() method? For now I end up with a bunch of mis-displayed characters.

Here's the simple string that won't display correctly:

webBrowser.NavigateToString("ąęłóńżźćś");

The code file is saved with UTF-8 encoding (with signature).

Thanks.

Solution

  • First up, NavigateToString() is expecting a full html document.

    Secondly, as you're passing HTML, it's best to pass HTML entities, rather than relying on encodings. Unfortunately, not that many entity codes are actually supported by the browser so you should look at using the numeric unicode values where necessary.
    Much like this:

    webBrowser1.NavigateToString("<html><body><p>&oacute; &#213;</p></body></html>");