Handling HTML character encoding issues

-Think this is called character encoding but please re-title if I'm wrong-

Issue: Trying to consume HTML with phpquery and maintain the html's integrity after it runs through the phpquer开发者_如何学JAVAy functions.

These are the changes to the HTML as it runs through the functions:

1. Original HTML: <strong> Fast & Strong I Concrete</strong>

2. HTML Page Converted to PHPQueryObject: <strong> Fast& Strong I&Acirc;&nbsp;Concrete</strong>

3. PHPQueryObject run through Find() function: <strong> Fast & Strong IÂ Concrete</strong>

Tried various combinations of htmlentities(), html_entity_decode(), iconv() to handle the movement of the data and maintain the original structure without displaying a bunch of unnecessary characters. I think this is a limitation of phpquery’s ability to consume html, so I need a work around.

I’ve been successful removing the  and other unneeded characters by using iconv("UTF-8", "BIG5//IGNORE") but it is somewhat destructive to the original html since it’s intended for Traditional Chinese Characters.

Question: What are Â and   and how can I handle them so the consumed html #2 and #3 above display as originally intended #1 above without displaying extra characters to the browser?