UTF-8 xml file shows Gibberish

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Published on 2010-05-15T18:41:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 18:44 UTC
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I have a UTF-8 encoded xml file, which was exported from a Wordpress MySQL database.

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:

™×•×˜×•×ª

How can I find the original encoding or charset and convert the text into proper Hebrew?

PHP's mb_detect_encoding($str); returns UTF-8

Tried all sorts of php encoding functions, with different settings and input/output charsets, but they all just print different looking gibberish blocks, like:

ÃâÃËÃâ¢Ãâ¢ÃËÃ

and

?? ××©×ž×

...Any Ideas how to go about this?

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