I am trying to retrieve the response of stack exchange api like [http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags?order=desc&sort=popular&site=stackoverflow] I am using the following code to retrieve the response But I am getting the response in decoded form as ���n� �߅f]as��DՊ�I��/�m�(��*Ʃ���Kc��� I found the similar question [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20808901/problems-with-decoding-stack-exchange-api-response] , but I didn’t find any answers for the question. How to decode the api response? Thanks in advance.