[snip] > > I'm trying to load an external rss feed into a DomDocument, the feed says >>>> it's uft-8 but DomDocument rightly disagrees. This causes a warning: Input >>>> is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xA3 0x36 0x35 0x20 >>>> >>>> Is there any way I can get DomDocument to skip that part of the feed. >>>> I'm not looking for the LIBXML_NOERROR option which results in not loading >>>> the feed at all. The feed has some incorrectly encoded pound sign in it that >>>> causes the problem. I'd much rather have the feed just without that pound >>>> sign (or maybe some weird character) than not having the feed at all. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Ron >>>> >>> [/snip] What about a simple str_replace on the string before moving to the DomDocument? -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat