How to encode the response of an TIdHTTP call? - delphi

Question

In a project I use TIdHTTP to call a webserver.
The webserver is an asp.net test application that returns the following json:
{
"message":"test ÀÈÉÌÒÙàèéìòù"
}
The response I get in Delphi is a kind of not encoded string:
{"message":"test ÃÃÃÃÃÃàèéìòù"}
this is how I use TIdHTTP:
Result := '';
IdHTTP := TIdHTTP.Create;
IdHTTP.Request.MethodOverride := 'ForwardCommand';
IdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL := TIdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL.Create(IdHTTP);
IdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL.SSLOptions.Mode := sslmClient;
IdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL.SSLOptions.SSLVersions:= [sslvTLSv1_2];
IdHTTP.IOHandler := IdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL;
IdHTTP.HandleRedirects := True;
IdHTTP.Response.ContentEncoding := 'UTF-8'; // I tried this but it seems not enough!
try
url := 'testappUrl';
try
IdHTTP.ConnectTimeout := 2000;
IdHTTP.ReadTimeout := 4000;
Response := IdHTTP.Get(url);
ShowMessage(response);
except
on E:Exception do
begin
response := StringReplace(E.Message,#10,' ',[rfReplaceAll]);
response := StringReplace(response,#13,' ',[rfReplaceAll]);
response := '{"errormessage": "'+response+'"}';
end;
end;
Result := response;
finally
IdHTTP.Free;
end;
please tell me how I can see the response correctly.
Is there a way to force encoding so that accented chars are read correctly?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Try to use a TStringStream forcing the encoding (UTF-8).
Test this code to get the response:
var
ts:TStringStream;
begin
...
ts := TStringStream.Create(string.Empty, TEncoding.UTF8);
IdHTTP1.Get('url', ts);
ShowMessage(ts.DataString);
or
ShowMessage(ts.ToString);
...