UTF8: U+00E9 é is split into U+0065 e and U+00B4 ´

Question

I'm struggling with some UTF8-Data.

When I open an UTF8-file in hex-view, the é is split into two characters (U+0065 e and U+00B4 ´) instead of using the obvious character U+00E9 é.

If I store these data on my database (Note: Collation is set to German_PhoneBook_CI_AI) then it's stored

Depardieu, Ge´rard (!!)

instead of : Depardieu, Gérard.

So I'm wondering if the data itself is flawed or what kind of information I am missing. Let me know if you need any more information coupled with this problem.

The apparent question is: How can I solve this problem?

Note: I tagged this question as C# / VB.NET, because there might be answers where code snippets are useful.

Answer 1

The website where we parsed the unicode didn't provide proper unicode.