file get contents Breaks Up UTF-8 Characters

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I am loading a HTML from an external server  The HTML markup has UTF-8 encoding and contains characters such as l    c t    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            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    lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 0 Strict  EN   http   www w3 org TR xhtml1 DTD xhtml1-strict dtd  gt   lt html xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  xml lang  sk  lang  sk  gt   lt head gt    lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset UTF-8    gt   lt meta http-equiv  Content-Style-Type  content  text css    gt   lt meta http-equiv  Content-Language  content  sk    gt   lt title gt Test lt  title gt    lt  head gt   lt body gt     lt  php   html   file get contents  http   example com    echo htmlentities  html      gt    lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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Exemple     string   file get contents      File txt     string   mb convert encoding  string   UTF-8    ISO-8859-1    echo  string

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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

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Solution suggested in the comments of the PHP manual entry for file get contents  function file get contents utf8  fn          content   file get contents  fn         return mb convert encoding  content   UTF-8             mb detect encoding  content   UTF-8  ISO-8859-1   true        You might also try your luck with http   php net manual en function mb-internal-encoding php

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I had a similar problem  what solved it was html entity decode   My code is    content   file get contents  http   example com fr     x   new SimpleXMLElement  content   foreach  x- gt channel- gt item as  entry         subEntry   html entity decode  entry- gt description       In here I am retrieving an xml file  in French   that s why I m using this  x object variable  And only then I decode it into this variable  subEntry   I tried mb convert encoding but this didn t work for me

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I think you simply have a double conversion of the character type there  D   It may be  because you opened an html document within a html document  So you have something that looks like this in the end   lt  DOCTYPE html gt    lt head gt   lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset UTF-8    gt   lt title gt  lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt   lt  DOCTYPE html gt    lt head gt   lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset UTF-8    gt   lt title gt Test lt  title gt           The use of mb detect encoding therefore may lead you to other issues

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In Turkish language  mb convert encoding or any other charset conversion did not work   And also urlencode did not work because of space char converted to   char  It must be  20 for percent encoding   This one worked       url   rawurlencode  url       url   str replace   3A         url       url   str replace   2F         url        data   file get contents  url

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I managed to solve using this function below  function file get contents utf8  url         content   file get contents  url       return mb convert encoding  content   quot HTML-ENTITIES quot    quot UTF-8 quot       file get contents utf8  url

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I am working with 35000 lines of data    f fopen  veri1 txt   r     i 0  while  feof  f         i         line mb convert encoding fgets  f    HTML-ENTITIES    UTF-8        echo  line      This code convert my strange characters into normal

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I had similar problem with polish language I tried   fileEndEnd   mb convert encoding  fileEndEnd   UTF-8   mb detect encoding  fileEndEnd   UTF-8   true     I tried   fileEndEnd   utf8 encode    fileEndEnd     I tried   fileEndEnd   iconv   quot UTF-8 quot    quot UTF-8 quot    fileEndEnd     And then -  fileEndEnd   mb convert encoding  fileEndEnd   HTML-ENTITIES    quot UTF-8 quot     This last worked perfectly

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Try this function  function mb html entity decode  string    if  extension loaded  mbstring       true        mb language  Neutral        mb internal encoding  UTF-8        mb detect order array  UTF-8    ISO-8859-15    ISO-8859-1    ASCII          return mb convert encoding  string   UTF-8    HTML-ENTITIES       return html entity decode  string  ENT COMPAT   UTF-8

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Try this too    url    http   www domain com         html   file get contents  url          Change encoding to UTF-8 from ISO-8859-1      html   iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1  TRANSLIT    html

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