Problem displaying xml utf8 symbols on edittext

i have the following project that recieve xml from the client
but hebrew text displayed wronggly


public void run1() {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("my https url");

try {
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("key",mykey));

StringEntity se = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs);
httppost.setEntity(se);

httppost.addHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
String httpResponse=httpclient.execute(httppost, responseHandler);

//stripping from xml the info between <hebrew_val>אבגדה</hebrew_val>
String[] separated1 = httpResponse.split("</hebrew_val>");
String[] separated2 = separated1[0].split("<hebrew_val>");

String finalString = URLEncoder.encode(separated2[1], "UTF-8");

edt.setText(separated2[1]);
Log.d("encoding", separated2[1]);
Log.d("encoding", finalString);


} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

}

logcat display
01-30 15:22:36.251: D/encoding(9506): אדם שווץ
01-30 15:22:36.251: D/encoding(9506): %C3%97%C2%90%C3%97%C2%93%C3%97%C2%9D+%C3%97%C2%97%C2%95%C3%97%C2%A8%C3%97%C2%A5

any help appriciated