Fix incorrectly displayed encoding on an html document with php

8
votes

Is there a way to fix the characters that display improperly after running this html markup through phpquery::newDocument? There are slated double quotes around -Classics with modern Woman- in the original document that end up displaying improperly after creating the new doc with phpquery.

    //Original document is UTF-8 encoded
$raw_html = '<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head><body><p>Mr. Smith of Bangkok celebrated the “Classics with modern Woman”.</p></body></html>';
print($raw_html);

$aNew_document = phpQuery::newDocument($raw_html);
print($aNew_document);

Original Output: Mr. Smith of Bangkok celebrated the “Classics with modern Woman”.

New Document Output: Mr. Smith of Bangkok celebrated the �Classics with modern Woman.

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4 Answers

25
votes
  1. You need to save the page with UTF-8 without BOM encoding.

  2. Add this header on top of your script:

    header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");

[EDIT]: How to Save Files as UTF-8 without BOM :

On OP request, here's how you can do on Windows:

  1. Download Notepad++. It is an awesome text-editor that you should be using.
  2. Install it.
  3. open the PHP script in Notepad++ that contains this code. The page where you are doing all the coding. Yes, that file on your computer.
  4. In Notepad++, from the Encoding menu at the top, select "Convert to UTF-8 without BOM".
  5. Save the file.
  6. Upload to your webserver by FTP or whatever you use.
  7. Now, run that script.
3
votes

i had the same problem but when i added 

ob_start();

to first line

ob_end_flush();

to the end it seem to be working

1
votes

You have this in the <head> element:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

The next course would be to use HTML entities to display these characters.

1
votes

I had same problem using phpQuery class. Problem IS as mentioned above, in top voted answer - script file is saved as UTF8-with BOM.

As i had no no chance getting notepad++ on mac osX,

every output i prepared like this utf8_decode()

BOM is meant for MS-windows.