file_get_contents() converts UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

Question

I am trying to get search results from yahoo.com.

But file_get_contents() converts UTF-8 charset (charset, that yahoo uses) content to ISO-8859-1.<

Answer 1

For anyone investigating on this:

The time I spent on encoding issues taught me that rarely php functions "magically" change the encoding of strings. (One of these rare examples is :

exec( $command, $output, $returnVal )

Please note also that the working header set is as follows:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

and not:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

As I had a similar issue as the one you describe, it was enough to set the headers properly.

Hope this helps!