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

In case it is definitely the DOM screwing up the encoding, this trick did it for me a while back the other way round (accepting ISO-8859-1 data). DOMDocument should be UTF-8 by default in any case but you can still try:

    $dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');