title: file_get_contents returns strange characters with some Wikipedia pages, why?
body: <p>I have gone through most of the solutions but they all didn't work.</p>
  
  <p>I try to parse a Wikipedia page using file_get_contents but the return differs according to something in the page I haven't figure out yet.</p>
  
  <p>For example when I use it with this page, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word</a> it works fine, but when I use it with this page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Kolb" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Kolb</a> it returns strage characters..</p>
  
  <p>And both pages they're just the same, I guess.</p>
  
  <p>What could be the problem ?</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE 1</p>
  
  <p>Here what I got :</p>
  
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