php problem with russian language

[kewarr]

i get page in utf-8 with russian language using curl. if i echo text it show good. then i use such code\[code\]$dom = new domDocument; /*** load the html into the object ***/ @$dom->loadHTML($html); /*** discard white space ***/ $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false; /*** the table by its tag name ***/ $tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName('table'); /*** get all rows from the table ***/ $rows = $tables->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('tr'); /*** loop over the table rows ***/ for ($i = 0; $i <= 5; $i++) { /*** get each column by tag name ***/ $cols = $rows->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('td'); echo $cols->item(2)->nodeValue; echo '<hr />'; } \[/code\]$html contains russian text. after it line echo $cols->item(2)->nodeValue; display error text, not russian. i try iconv but not work. any ideas?