Scandinavian letters + Commandline PHP (Windows)

[Buzer]

Hello. I have a small problem. My script is run from commandline and it takes input from Word document (more exactly: Opens Word, saves file as HTML-document and then opens it inside the script). Then it parses it. If I issue print after getting data, I will see chars like ├ñ (ä). However, if I redirect the output on text file, I see chars like they should be.

Next step the script does is making a pdf file. PDF file shows ä (ä) then. So I probrally need to change encoding somehow. Any help is appricated.

PDF library: FPDF 1.53
PHP version: PHP 5.0.4 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Mar 31 2005 02:45:43)

[Buzer]

Okey, figured it out.

I used following:
html_entity_decode(htmlentities($item->nodeValue, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));
Now I see all chars like they should be at the PDF-file.