UTF-8 xml file shows Gibberish
- by Adam
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
?? ×שמ×
...Any Ideas how to go about this?
