Problems with UTF8

[eluser]gh05t[/eluser]
Hey guys, I have a problem with UTF8. My view which prints text from the database won't display all the characters properly. I've done the following:
- set char_set to utf8 and dbcollat to utf8_general_ci in database.php
- edited head in the view: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
- double-checked database and tables charsets: all is set to utf8

Is it a bug? Or am I missing something?

Please help.

I'm using:
CodeIgniter 2.0.2
MySQL 5.0.45
PHP 5.2.6
Apache 2.2.9
NetBeans 6.8