How to set encoding when using HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument.LoadHtml

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I already have the source of HTML page so i am using

C#

string html_page_source="some page source crawled before";
HtmlDocument hdMyDoc = new HtmlDocument();
hdMyDoc.LoadHtml(html_page_source);

However i see not decoded characters such as

HTML

  
içerisinde 
göründüğünden çok
.
.

So how can i set auto decode at htmldocument ?

How can i set default encoding to solve this problem ?

And would this below method a good practice ?

C#

hdMyDoc.LoadHtml(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(html_page_source));

C# .net 4.5 latest , WPF application

Posted 20-Aug-14 6:16am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2014-08-20T06:58:00

http://stackoverflow.com/a/6696727/124386[^]

The Html Agility Pack is equiped with a utility class called HtmlEntity. It has a static method with the following signature:

C#
/// <summary>
/// Replace known entities by characters.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="text">The source text.</param>
/// <returns>The result text.</returns>
public static string DeEntitize(string text)
It supports well-known entities (like  ) and encoded characters such as ' as well.

Once you've extracted the string from the document, use this method to convert the HTML-encoded entities back to text characters.

Don't HTML-decode the source before trying to load the document; you'll completely change the meaning of the markup.