Issues with accentuation when reading data from JSON file

Question

The method below is extracting data from a JSON file, to fill a Dropdownlist.

public static List<Uf> GetAll()
{
  var client = new WebClient();
  JsonSerializerSettings settings = new JsonSerializerSettings();
  settings.Culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("pt-BR");
  var response = client.DownloadString(new Uri(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Scripts/uf.json")));
  var lista = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Uf>>(response, settings);
  return lista;
}

But when it returns this to the Browser, it displays the accented characters with strange codes.

How can I display characters with correct accentuation?

Answer 1

Perhaps the problem has nothing to do with the disembolarization but with the download in itself.

Define the encoding in the request should solve your problem

var client = new WebClient();
client.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;

var response = client.DownloadString(new Uri(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Scripts/uf.json")));