Disable html entity encoding in PHP DOMDocument

Question

I cannot figure out how to stop the DOMDocument from distorting these characters.

<?php $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->substituteEntities = false; $doc->loadHTML('<p>¯\(°_o)/¯</p>'); print_r($doc->saveHTML()); ?> 

Expected Result: ¯ (° _o) / ¯

Actual Output: & ACIRC; & MACR; (& ACIRC; & deg; _o) / & ACIRC; & MACR;

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Answer 1

I found a hint in the comments http://php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtml.php

(Comment from & mdmitry at gmail dot com> 21-Dec-2009 05:02: "You can also load HTML as UTF-8 with this simple hack:")

Just add '<?xml encoding="UTF-8">' before entering the HTML:

 $doc = new DOMDocument(); //$doc->substituteEntities = false; $doc->loadHTML('<?xml encoding="UTF-8">' . '<p>¯\(°_o)/¯</p>'); print_r($doc->saveHTML()); 

Answer 2

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"> 

at the top of the document, tags are taken care of .. for saveXML and saveHTML.