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

This was enough for me, the other answers here were overkill. Given I have an HTML document with an existing HEAD tag. HEAD tags don't have attributes and I had no issues leaving the extra META tag in the HTML for my use-case.

$data = str_ireplace('', '', $data);
$document = new DOMDocument();
$document->loadHTML($data);