prevent PHP's DOMDocument from changing character encoding

Question

How do I prevent DOMDocument from changing character encoding? See the following, and note how “ is being changed to â.

<?php
    $message = "<p>Hello “something in quotes” goodby</p>";
    echo("pre message: $message\n");
    $doc = new DOMDocument();
    $doc->loadHTML($message);
    $body = $doc->getElementsByTagName('body')->item(0);
    $message=$doc->saveHTML($body);
    echo("Modified message: $message\n");

OUTPUT:

pre message: <p>Hello “something in quotes” goodby</p>
Modified message: <body><p>Hello âsomething in quotesâ goodby</p></body>

$doc->loadHTML(mb_convert_encoding($message, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'));, copied from the above post and it works — Andrew, Dec 10 '15 at 18:30
no problem :), yeah, i tried few attempts on my own and the answer below, only `mb_conv...` works :S — Andrew, Dec 10 '15 at 19:32

jbrahy · Answer 1 · 2015-12-10T18:44:49.913

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I've run into similar problems and solved them using iconv and forcing the encoding.

$new_string = iconv("UTF-8", "UTF-8//TRANSLIT",$old_string);

here's the php man page on it.

after further investigation it looks like this is a bug in DOM:Document.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32547

edited Dec 10 '15 at 18:44

answered Dec 10 '15 at 18:25

jbrahy

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Thanks jbrahy, but no change. – user1032531 Dec 10 '15 at 18:39
looks like you have to put the correct meta tag in the html. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32547 – jbrahy Dec 10 '15 at 18:44
And here's a similar problem. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3523409/domdocument-encoding-problems-characters-transformed – jbrahy Dec 10 '15 at 18:46

prevent PHP's DOMDocument from changing character encoding

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