Character Encoding issue with PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

Question

I am using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ to fetch data like Page Title, Meta Description and Meta Tags from other domains and

Answer 1

If I switch browser encoding to UTF-8, it works.

So you're simply not setting the correct HTTP header to designate your document to be UTF-8 encoded and the browser is interpreting it in some other encoding. Use:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');