PHP Curl Print Problem

I'm trying to print an external site's HTML using curl, but when I go to print the html I just get a bunch of bad characters:

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Here is my code:

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.thesite.com/");
curl_setopt($curl,开发者_运维知识库 CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
print $result; 

Any help would be great,

Thanks!

If the response is GZIP'd, you may use this:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip');

See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

To see if it's gzip'd, check the headers (see CURLOPT_HEADER).