Problems with accents and special characters

[eluser]marcoss[/eluser]
If that's the data already in the database (which based on your explanation is incorrectly encoded) and you have now fixed the files encoding, it's normal to have those symbols, once you have all your data in UTF-8 you won't see that again.

Regarding htmlentities, don't use it, it's not portable. What you can do if you want to force the data entered in the database to be UTF-8 encoded, use utf8_encode() on it. Always keep your data in the same charset, choose one and stick to it.

p/d: Otro argentino!