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

Can also encode like below.... gathered from https://davidwalsh.name/domdocument-utf8-problem

$profile = '
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';
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML(mb_convert_encoding($profile, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'));
echo $dom->saveHTML();