Problems with UTF8

[eluser]gh05t[/eluser]
I've also tried putting:

Code:

$this->db->query('SET NAMES \'utf8\'');
            $this->db->query('SET character_set_connection=\'utf8\'');
            $this->db->query('SET character_set_results=\'utf8\'');
            $this->db->query('SET character_set_client=\'utf8\'');

In my controller before fetching the results, but echo mysql_client_encoding(); still returns latin1.

WTH?