Question

I want load xml documents, but there are special symbols like : ąčęėįšųū and i get error Invalid character in the given encoding. Question is how to encode this characters before load xml ?

// load xml result from Google weather
XDocument xd = XDocument.Load("http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=vilnius&hl=ru");

Answer 1

I would give this a try

WebClient cln = new WebClient();
var str = cln.DownloadString("http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=vilnius&hl=ru");
XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(new StringReader(str));