international chars in form

[eluser]toltmanns[/eluser]
Hey all,

I've been using CI for about two weeks and I'm loving it. That said, I am running into an issue where I am trying to input foreign characters and they are not making it to the $_POST variable. I suspect that it has something to do with system/core/input.php because it seems to be loaded/fired each time. I tested my problem with a bare bones form posting to itself - copied some arabic characters and $_POST spits it out - in my test case.

I've set the charset meta tag - and confirmed through firefox View Page Info. I've also set accept-charset="UTF-8" attribute in the form.

Am I missing something, or is there any workaround for this? I'd hate to have to scrap my beautiful codeigniter solution to allow this functionality.

Thanks,
Troy