如何更改Simple HTML DOM检索的网页的编码？

Question

I am trying to read contents of a web page

$html = file_get_html('http://www.example.com/somepage.aspx');

Since the page's encoding is Windows-1254, and I work on a page encoded as UTF-8, I cannot replace some words which have language-specific characters.

For Example:

If I try to

$str2 = str_replace('TÜRKÇE', 'TURKCE', $str);

it does not replace.

I have tried htmlentities() function, It worked but deleted some words which contains special characters.

Answer 1

After getting strings I have used iconv('Windows-1254', 'utf-8', $str) function (thanks to @pguardiario). This solved my problem.