French characters cut off

[eluser]webnology[/eluser]
Hi all,

I'm having an issue saving french characters with CI (or is it non-CI ?). If I save a form filed with value 'Frédéric', then the string seems to be cut off at the Fr... The rest dissapears. Now, my encoding is like this:

in MySQL:

Code:

utf8_general_ci

in database.php :

Code:

$db['default']['char_set'] = "utf8";
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "utf8_general_ci";

Can anyone help me to solve this, please?

Kind regards,
M