Character encoding, CodeIgniter and MySQL

[eluser]Iván Argulo[/eluser]
I don't use UTF-8 in Spanish language (nor in CodeIgniter nor in MySQL) because I couldn't to make it work.

For CodeIgniter I use iso-8859-1 (both in meta and config), and for MySQL I use latin1_spanish_ci, or latin1_general_ci, because we have too special chars such á and ñ. I found that with other charsets the data gets encoded in the database.

Maybe you'll have to choose your charset other than UTF.

Hope it helps