Accent error when exporting xlxs database data with javascript

Question

I am maintaining a code that reads data from a MYSQL database and via PHP transforms it into a table and with Jquery I export it with Excel document. However the accent gets all wrong for example:

Ãﾁrea de Atuação  Número

The code I use in Jquery is this:

$(document).ready(function(e) {
    //creating a temporary HTML link element (they support setting file names)
    var a = document.createElement('a');
    var data_type = 'data:application/x-msexcel';
    var table_div = document.getElementById('dvData');
    var table_html = table_div.outerHTML.replace(/ /g, '%20');
    a.href = data_type + ', ' + table_html;
    a.download = 'Relatorio_Diplomas_Legais.xls';
    a.click();
});

I couldn’t find the parameter to encode the text. Would anyone know what it could be?