I use the weather API in my ASP.Net page.
If I add the language (hl) to the query, I will get this error:
"Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 1, position 526.".
It works without the get parameter for language, but I want to localize the output.
Here is my code with the error in second line:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("http://www.google.com/ig/api?hl=de&weather=" + location );
this works:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=" + location );
Any idea?
For some reason, Google isn't UTF encoding the output. Here is a way for you to compensate:
WebClient client = new WebClient();
string data = client.DownloadString("http://www.google.com/ig/api?hl=de&weather=YourTown");
byte[] encoded = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(encoded);
XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.Load(stream);
Console.WriteLine(xml.InnerXml);
Console.ReadLine();