Get and set the Encoding used to upload and download strings in CSharp

using System;/*from w w  w  .  j a v a  2  s .c  o m*/
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

public class Example
{
   public static void Main()
   {
        string data = "myData= 50";
        WebClient client = new WebClient ();

        client.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

        string reply = client.UploadString ("http://cnn.com", data);

        Console.WriteLine (reply);
    
   }
}