title: c# HTTPListener encoding issue
body: <p>I have a Java application sending HTTP requests to a C# application. The C# app uses HTTPListener to listen for requests and respond. On the Java side I'm encoding the URL using UTF-8. </p>
  
  <p>When I send a \ character it gets encoded as %5C as expected but on the C# side it becomes a / character. The encoding for the request object is Windows-1252 which I think may be causing the problem. How do I set the default encoding to UTF-8? </p>
  
  <p>Currently I'm doing this to convert the encoding:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        foreach (string key in request.QueryString.Keys)
          {
              if (key != null)
              {
                  byte[] sourceBytes =request.ContentEncoding.GetBytes(request.QueryString[key]);
                  string value = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(sourceBytes));
               }
          }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This handles the non ASCII characters I'm also sending but doesn't fix the slash problem. Examining request.QueryString[key] in the debugger shows that the / is already there. </p>