nodeValue from DomDocument returning weird characters in PHP

Question

So I'm trying to parse HTML pages and looking for paragraphs (<p>) using get_elements_by_tag_name('p');

The problem is that when I use $element->nodeValue, it's returning weird characters. The document is loaded first into $html using curl then loading it into a DomDocument.

I'm sure it has to do with charsets.

Here's an example of a response: "aujourd’hui".

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is an encoding issue. try explicitly setting the encoding to UTF-8.

this should help: http://devzone.zend.com/article/8855