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I'm trying to scrape some content from a website, which usually works perfectly fine. This time, however, when scraping the content I get a load of characters, little diamonds with question marks.

Both the website I'm scraping from and my own website are using UTF-8 as encoding. The strange thing is, that I can scrape the homepage of that site perfectly fine, but whenever I try to scrape a different page, it all get's messed up, even though these pages are using UTF-8 as well. To keep things simple I've only called file_get_html() and after that a simple echo $html->plaintext so there should be no errors in my coding.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks in advance

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  • Post some of the unwanted characters you're getting. Commented May 27, 2012 at 19:51
  • How are you verifying that the page is encoded in utf-8? Commented May 27, 2012 at 19:52
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    see answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/12488111/… Commented Feb 27, 2014 at 19:10
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