Why Does DOM Change Encoding?

Question

$string = file_get_contents(\'http://example.com\');

if (\'UTF-8\' === mb_detect_encoding($string)) {
    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    // hack to preserve UTF-8 ch         


        

Answer 1

I had similar problems recently, and eventually found this workaround - convert all the non-ascii characters to html entities before loading the html

$string = mb_convert_encoding($string, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");
$dom->loadHTML($string);