quite a big bug in DOM

Hi, I found a bug in DOM. It surprises me that it's never been seen and/or fixed before. I can't find anything about in the PHP bugtracker anyway. The reason why I'm posting here and not writing a bugreport, is because I'm not sure if this is a problem in the PHP-extension or the DOM-library itself. In the latter case there's nothing anybody here can do, I guess. This is the situation: <?php $doc = DOMDocument::loadHTML('<html><body>&nbsp;</body></html>'); echo "'".$doc->getElementsByTagName('body')->item(0)->textContent."'\n"; $doc = DOMDocument::loadHTML('<html><body>foo&nbsp;bar</body></html>'); echo "'".$doc->getElementsByTagName('body')->item(0)->textContent."'\n"; ?> Output: ' ' 'foo bar' Where the heck do these 'Â's come from when it parses an &nbsp; ? I hope anyone can shed some light on the next step to be taken in order to fix this. Thanks, Ron Korving