DBpedia and SPARQL: Query with accent marks does not work

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So I’ve tried a lot of different things and have been searching for a solution, but haven’t had any luck…

My SPARQL query is

PREFIX dbp: <About: http://dbpedia.org/resource/;
PREFIX dbpedia2: <About: 0-;

SELECT ?currentclub
WHERE {
dbp:“.$term.” dbpedia2:currentclub ?currentclub .
FILTER langMatches(lang(?currentclub), ‘en’)
}

When the $term equals something with an accent mark in the name it gets all screwed up and no results are given. I tried a bunch of different things, but just can’t seem to get any of them to work. Hoping for some help.

Thanks