PHP DOMDocument loadHTML not encoding UTF-8 correctly

Question

I\'m trying to parse some HTML using DOMDocument, but when I do, I suddenly lose my encoding (at least that is how it appears to me).

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Answer 1

Works finde for me:

$dom = new \DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML(utf8_decode($html));
...
return  utf8_encode( $dom->saveHTML());