How to handle foreign languages?

Question

I am developing a Brazilian site that should support foreign characters, for example á, à, ó, í ú, ê, etc. It also uses AJAX, so I decided to use charset UTF-8because I always get the character, and I don't know how to fix it.

My navigation menu displays correctly when used UTF-8(since it queries the database to display the entire menu), but I don't know how to do it. Here are some screenshots from the database and its rendering:

So far so good. The trouble is that I started using Zend_Navigation to render breadcrumbs, and I don’t know what to do to get over the character that I get:

What should I do? Change the encoding to ISO-8858-1? I have already done this, but everything seems to be wrong:

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EDIT 2

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Answer 1

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HTH:)

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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