I use an existing db on our SQL-Server 2008 with Laravel 5.
Many tables and columns contain german umlauts. I've set the charset of the connection to "utf8" and can access tables like Läger without problems.
But I couldn't access columns with umlauts. Every query returns something like
["Stra�e"]=> string(15) "Mainzer Str. 97"
instead of
["Straße"]
I've tested it with charset utf8 and latin1 but it's always the same result.
Any idea how to fix this without changing the existing db?
