PHP DOMDocument loadHTML not encoding UTF-8 correctly

Question

I\'m trying to parse some HTML using DOMDocument, but when I do, I suddenly lose my encoding (at least that is how it appears to me).

$profile = \"

        

Answer 1

The only thing that worked for me was the accepted answer of

$profile = '
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';
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML('' . $profile);
echo $dom->saveHTML();

HOWEVER

This brought about new issues, of having in the output of the document.

The solution for me was then to do

foreach ($doc->childNodes as $xx) {
    if ($xx instanceof \DOMProcessingInstruction) {
        $xx->parentNode->removeChild($xx);
    }
}

Some solutions told me that to remove the xml header, that I had to perform

$dom->saveXML($dom->documentElement);

This didn't work for me as for a partial document (e.g. a doc with two

tags), only one of the

tags where being returned.