title: encode or decode string from mysql using php
body: <p>In my db I have a field value looking like this:</p>
  
  <p><code>ÎœÎ‘ÎšÎ‘Î¡Î™ÎŸÎ¥ Î“\'</code></p>
  
  <p>I think it must be Greek chars inserted when I didn't have set <code>UTF-8</code> for my db (I think I was using the default Latin 1).</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get the actual characters?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>