PHP get HTML - missing characters

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how to convert ISO 8859-1 Characters to UTF-8

But there are missing characters (like 'ñ' or 'á', 'é'...)

The code to get the HTML is

$html = file_get_contents_utf8($url);

and then:

$html = mb_convert_encoding($html, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");

I've tried a few alternatives but still not working.

Any ideas? Thanks

What is your internal encoding? You can just use `file_get_contents( $url );` if your encoding is utf8. — Green Black, Dec 03 '12 at 21:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 03 '12 at 23:06

I am not sure what encoding you are trying to convert to, but using file_get_contents() should do what you are trying to do.

Change your code as follows

<?php
 $url = 'http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1635461/0/aforo/madrid-arena/vigilantes/';
 $html = file_get_contents($url);
 echo $html;
?>

I tested this and it shows all the characters (like 'ñ' or 'á', 'é'...) you were referring to.

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