From: "Peter Pei" on
I use the following code to get rss and parse it, but the code
occasionally have issues with gb2312 or big-5 encoded feeds, and fails to
parse them. However other times may appear just okay. Any thoughts? Maybe
SimpleXMLElement is simply not meant for other language encodings...

$page = file_get_contents($rss);
try {
$feed = new SimpleXMLElement($page);