PHP CURL isn't processing encoded return data properly

Question

Im have some minor encoding issues. Im getting a json data string from here (try it yourself):

http://cdn.content.easports.com/fifa/fltOnlineAssets/C74DDF38-0B11-49b0-B199-2E2A11D1CC13/2014/fut/items/web/179899.json

The name in the data is shown like this

Ari Skúlason

How can I fetch this data with proper encoding so its Ari Skúlason?

I tried switching it to utf-8 like this in php

echo mb_convert_encoding($r,'ISO-8859-1','utf-8');

which got me closer, but its still not right

Ari Sk�lason

my php curl request:

$location = 'http://cdn.content.easports.com/fifa/fltOnlineAssets/C74DDF38-0B11-49b0-  B199-2E2A11D1CC13/2014/fut/items/web/179899.json';
$ch = curl_init($location);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                                                                                                                                        
'Accept: application/json'));
$r = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo mb_detect_encoding($r);
$r = mb_convert_encoding($r,'ISO-8859-1','utf-8');

print_r($r);

Answer 1

You Can use header

   header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

and after decode string

 $page = utf8_decode(curl_exec($ch));

It's worked for me

or

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'UTF-8');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');

after add this

$page = curl_exec($ch);
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
@$dom->loadHTML(mb_convert_encoding($page, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'));

Answer 2

set another curl option for CURLOPT_ENCODING and set it to "" to ensure it will not return any garbage

   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING ,"");