title: how to store accent marks over characters in my database
body: <p>I'm storing responses from the google geocoded into my database.</p>
  
  <p>One such response has an accent mark over the o.  The town is Rincon.  (I would put the accent mark here to show you, but I don't know how.)</p>
  
  <p>When the response is stored into my mySQL database it looks like this: RincÃ³n</p>
  
  <p>I realize that this has to do with Collation, but I'm nervous about making changes to the database because I have so much data in there.  The Collation that is currently applied to this field is utf8_general_ci.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone advise:
  1) Is utf8_general_ci the correct Collation.
  2) Do I need to somehow specify this Collation in my ajax request?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you....</p>