Difficulty loading Word HTML file via file_get_contents

Asked Sep 25 '17 at 09:57

Active Sep 25 '17 at 09:59

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I convert Word Documents to html for display. I use DocTo to convert from .doc to .html.

If I open the resulting html file in a browser it is displayed correctly without any ? or other unicode problems.

However for my website I have to retrieve the HTML file via

file_get_contents('file/url to my file.html');

The resulting html when displayed has ? and [] squares in place of some characters in the document.

Is there a simple workaround I'm missing?

I know I could link directly to the html file, however this does not suit my needs as I need to output the content inside a div.

edited Sep 25 '17 at 09:59

asked Sep 25 '17 at 09:57

Toby Allen

encode everything in UTF-8 – delboy1978uk Sep 25 '17 at 09:59
Can you check if your PHP file is encoded in UTF-8? – gintko Sep 25 '17 at 09:59
also read this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through – delboy1978uk Sep 25 '17 at 10:00
Specify the character encoding for the HTML document: ` ` – Hasan Shahriar Sep 25 '17 at 10:09

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