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).

$profile = \"

        

Answer 1

I am using php 7.3.8 on a manjaro and I was working with Persian content. This solved my problem:

$html = 'hi
سلام
の家庭に、9 ☆';
$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
$doc->loadHTML(mb_convert_encoding($html, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'));
print $doc->saveHTML($doc->documentElement) . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;