Simple html dom character encoding issue

Question

I am using simple html dom to retrieve content from another website, but the thing is theres a character encoding issue with the stuff retrieved using simple html dom. The characters are showing up as the little diamond with the question mark inside.

The character encoding issue only happens with the content retrieved, and all other text on my site is displaying fine.

If anyone could help that would be great.

Answer 1

Try using iconv to convert the charset of the scraped text to the charset you use on your page.

Signature:

string iconv ( string $in_charset , string $out_charset , string $str )

Example:

echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $text);