diff --git a/src/utils.php b/src/utils.php
index 5d30756..8f4bd3f 100644
--- a/src/utils.php
+++ b/src/utils.php
@@ -109,8 +109,21 @@ function html_to_dom_document($html) {
   // Parse the source body as HTML
   $doc = new DOMDocument();
   libxml_use_internal_errors(true); # suppress parse errors and warnings
-  $body = mb_convert_encoding($html, 'HTML-ENTITIES', mb_detect_encoding($html));
-  @$doc->loadHTML($body, LIBXML_NOWARNING|LIBXML_NOERROR);
+  # loadHTML assumes ISO-8859-1 unless the document says otherwise, so encode
+  # everything outside ASCII as numeric entities. This used to be done with the
+  # HTML-ENTITIES pseudo-encoding, which is deprecated as of PHP 8.2.
+  # Invalid byte sequences are dropped, as they were before.
+  $substitute = mb_substitute_character();
+  mb_substitute_character('none');
+  try {
+    $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($html) ?: 'UTF-8';
+    $body = mb_encode_numericentity(mb_convert_encoding($html, 'UTF-8', $encoding), [0x80, 0x10FFFF, 0, 0x1FFFFF], 'UTF-8');
+  } finally {
+    mb_substitute_character($substitute);
+  }
+  # loadHTML throws on an empty string as of PHP 8
+  if($body !== '')
+    @$doc->loadHTML($body, LIBXML_NOWARNING|LIBXML_NOERROR);
   libxml_clear_errors();
   return $doc;
 }
diff --git a/tests/unit/UtilsTest.php b/tests/unit/UtilsTest.php
index bb1004d..c020961 100644
--- a/tests/unit/UtilsTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/UtilsTest.php
@@ -98,6 +98,24 @@ class UtilsTest extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase {
     $this->assertEmpty(libxml_get_errors());
   }
 
+  public function testHTMLToDomDocumentPreservesNonASCII() {
+    $doc = p3k\html_to_dom_document('<p>Café 日本語 🚀</p>');
+    $this->assertEquals('Café 日本語 🚀', $doc->getElementsByTagName('p')->item(0)->textContent);
+  }
+
+  public function testHTMLToDomDocumentDropsInvalidBytes() {
+    $substitute = mb_substitute_character();
+    $doc = p3k\html_to_dom_document("<p>caf\xe9 ok</p>");
+    $this->assertEquals('caf ok', $doc->getElementsByTagName('p')->item(0)->textContent);
+    $this->assertEquals($substitute, mb_substitute_character());
+  }
+
+  public function testHTMLToDomDocumentEmptyString() {
+    $doc = p3k\html_to_dom_document('');
+    $this->assertEquals('DOMDocument', get_class($doc));
+    $this->assertNull($doc->documentElement);
+  }
+
   public function testXMLToDomDocument() {
     $doc = p3k\xml_to_dom_document('<html><head><title>Title</title></head><body>Hello World</body></html>');
     $this->assertEquals('DOMDocument', get_class($doc));