title: UTF-8 xml file shows Gibberish
body: <p>I have a UTF-8 encoded xml file, which was exported from a Wordpress MySQL database.</p>
  
  <p>While the file is saved as UTF-8, and the encoding is UTF-8, I get gibberish instead of the Hebrew text that is supposed to be in there, which looks like this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>™×•×˜×•×ª</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>How can I find the original encoding or charset and convert the text into proper Hebrew?</p>
  
  <p>PHP's mb_detect_encoding($str); returns UTF-8</p>
  
  <p>Tried all sorts of php encoding functions, with different settings and input/output charsets, but they all just print different looking gibberish blocks, like:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>ÃâÃËÃâ¢Ãâ¢ÃËÃ</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>�� ××©×ž×</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>...Any Ideas how to go about this?</p>