Unicode encoding issues in CI

[eluser]Maglok[/eluser]
I have a utf8_unicode database in which I can insert a "©" mark manually no problem.

Once I try to do it through a field in an app made in Codeigniter I get some errors.

I am wondering how CI is dealing with it, I can't seem to add the really strange characters.

For example the string "©©©" gives me this error:

Code:

Incorrect string value: '\xA9\xA9\xA9' for column 'thesis_abstract' at row 1

I must not be dealing with the unicode correctly someway. Does anyone have a idea?