Windows with php the utf-8 characters are correct and not in Linux?

Question

I created php pages in windows 2012 with php (to migrate from Asp to php)

The pages in php are:

HTML5 (made in Notpad++ in UTF-8 Encoding)

Has < meta charset="UTF-8" > in the head

Accesses in Mysql: $pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=xxxx.mysql.dbaas.com.br;dbname=xxx; charset=utf8", "login", "senha")

fields in tables = latin1_general_ci

RESULT: Accentuation and perfect characters in Mysql data and text on pages.

PROBLEM in php Linux:

I transferred the same pages to Linux and accessing the SAME Mysql BD

And made a mistake in accentuating:

Mysql data with ERROR and other text on the correct pages

COMPLEMENT

In the meantime: I changed the version to php 7.1 created a table in Linux Mysql And the accent is correct.

I consider this matter closed.

Answer 1

I was able to correct the accent:

Mysql Table: put in Collation = utf8_unicode_ci

Connection to BD with PDO

$pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=XXX;dbname=XXX; charset=utf8", "XX", "XX", array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"));

Note: This array corrected accentuation errors.

And now the HTML text and BD data are correct.