DOMDocument encoding problems / characters transformed

Question

I am using DOMDocument to manipulate / modify HTML before it gets output to the page. This is only a html fragment, not a complete page. My initial problem was that all fren

Answer 1

Don't use utf8_decode. If your text is in UTF-8, pass it as such.

Unfortunately, DOMDocument defaults to LATIN1 in case of HTML. It seems the behavior is this

• If fetching a remote document, it should deduce the encoding from the headers
• If the header wasn't sent or the file is local, look for the correspondent meta-equiv
• Otherwise, default to LATIN1.

Example of it working:

Sans doute parce qu’il vient d’atteindre une date déterminante
dans son spectaculaire cheminement


HTML;

libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$d = new domdocument;
$d->loadHTML($s);

echo $d->textContent;

And with XML (default is UTF-8):

Sans doute parce qu’il vient d’atteindre une date déterminante'.
    'dans son spectaculaire cheminement';
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$d = new domdocument;
$d->loadXML($s);

echo $d->textContent;