CodeIgniter messing up é's

[eluser]maesk[/eluser]
Did you put this in your config/database.php:

Code:

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

I use Unicode all the time (not just "é" but also German Umlaute like äöü, daggers and stuff) and it works without problems with CI. No need to use utf8_decode() and utf8_encode().

@Sumon: The PHP bug you linked to is from 2002 and called "Not all cyrillic symbols present in HTML_ENTITIES table". I don't see the connection to this problem.