I can't change the RSS/XML feed so any ideas on how to override this fatal error?
All i'm doing is this
echo simplexml_load_file($url);
I can't change the rss feed, any ideas to work around this issue?
Well, assuming you can't report the bug to whoever is supplying the faulty feed and actually get it fixed. Assuming the entire document is UTF-8 despite being "labelled" UTF-16, then iconv is for converting between character encodings. That's a lot of assumptions on my part, but I'm not the one with all the information.