PHP encoding with DOMDocument
character-encoding, dom, php
Solution
Try:
$string = file_get_contents('your-xml-file.xml');
$string = mb_convert_encoding($string, 'utf-8', mb_detect_encoding($string));
// if you have not escaped entities use
$string = mb_convert_encoding($string, 'html-entities', 'utf-8');
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($string);
Problem
``` <tag> Алекс М </tag> ``` When I try to get the content of the following code using DOMDocument functions, it returns something like: ``` ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑ Ðœ ``` I've tried setting DOMDocument encoding to different values (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1), using mb_convert_encoding, iconv and utf8_encode but without success. How can I get "Алекс М" instead of "ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑ Ðœ" ? EDIT: The input is coming from a page loaded with curl. When I output the page content to my browser, the characters are displayed correctly (so I doubt the input is the problem).