Simple html dom character encoding issue

Question

I am using simple html dom to retrieve content from another website, but the thing is theres a character encoding issue with the stuff retrieved using simple html dom. The c

Answer 1

Try using iconv to convert the charset of the scraped text to the charset you use on your page.

Signature:

string iconv ( string $in_charset , string $out_charset , string $str )

Example:

echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $text);