My MySQL database is in UTF-8, pages in UTF-8, so far everything works. No problem with charset .
The problem is when I search something (company) in the search, for example:
I type "A" and it returns companies that have this initial letter + companies that start with "Ó", because in the bank it turns the "Ó" into "Ã". In the above example it pulls the "Optics" you have registered.
I honestly do not know how to solve. I tried changing the parameters in the search, but to no avail.
Maybe you force something like case-sensitive to accents (if at all possible).
Would anyone have any idea how to solve this? Preferably without changing DB.
OBS: Programming in PHP.