I need to send a NSString to a PHP file that goes into a MySQL database.
The problem that I have is with especial characters like "é". When I get the string (from the Facebook SDK for iOS) it comes like this: "Thenáme Thesurnamé", for example.

I send it to a PHP on a server using unicode as charset (I also tried with utf8), but in the database it appears with "Ã©" instead of "é".

The encoding of the database is utf8\_unicode\_ci