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Asked: 2026-06-12T03:00:18+00:00

I run the following code: $page = ‘<p>Ä</p>’; $DOM = new DOMDocument; $DOM->loadHTML($page); echo

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I run the following code:

$page = '<p>Ä</p>';
$DOM = new DOMDocument;
$DOM->loadHTML($page);
echo 'source:'.$page;
echo 'dom: '.$DOM->getElementsByTagName('p')->item (0)->textContent;

and it outputs the following:

source: Ä

dom: Ã

so, I don’t understand why when the text comes through DOMDocument its encoding becomes broken?

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  1. Editorial Team

    DOMDocument appears to be treating the input as UTF-8. In this conversion, Ä becomes Ä. Here’s the catch: That second character does not exist in ISO-8859-1, but does exist in Windows-1252. This is why you are seeing no second character in your output.

    You can fix this by calling utf8_decode on the output of textContent, or using UTF-8 as your page’s character encoding.

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