Why database result doesn't show accents?
After hours searching for something that help me resolve the problem I found an answer so easy in this post so before execute the insertion I used this mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8"); and now the characters are shown as they should. Thank you so much for your help.
did you try to encode your data in UTF-8 before you put them into your new db using this function: http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_xml_utf8_encode.asp
i think you need to change the database collection to UTF 8
execute the following queries .
ALTER DATABASE databasename CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;hope it will solve your issue .