file_get_contents() Breaks Up UTF-8 Characters
file-get-contents, php, utf-8
Solution
Alright. I have found out the file_get_contents() is not causing this problem. There's a different reason which I talk about in another question. Silly me.
See this question: Why Does DOM Change Encoding?
Problem
I am loading a HTML from an external server. The HTML markup has UTF-8 encoding and contains characters such as ľ,š,č,ť,ž etc. When I load the HTML with file_get_contents() like this: ``` $html = file_get_contents('http://example.com/foreign.html'); ``` It messes up the UTF-8 characters and loads Å, ¾, ¤ and similar nonsense instead of proper UTF-8 characters. How can I solve this? UPDATE: I tried both saving the HTML to a file and outputting it with UTF-8 encoding. Both doesn't work so it means file_get_contents() is already returning broken HTML. UPDATE2: ``` <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="sk" lang="sk"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="sk" /> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <?php $html = file_get_contents('http://example.com'); echo htmlentities($html); ?> </body> </html> ```