Arabic not displaying properly

[eluser]shadowcaster[/eluser]
Hi all.

I'm building an English/Arabic website which pulls in data from a mysql database which has the Arabic stored in UTF8 encoding.

I had the good sense to encode the views and controllers in UTF8 before attempting to display the Arabic and here's an example of the output I get using Codeigniter:

114:1 قل اعوذ برب الناس
114:2 ملك الناس
114:3 اله الناس
114:4 من شر الوسواس الخناس
114:5 الذى يوسوس فى صدور الناس
114:6 من الجنه والناس

I've spent many hours trying to fix this but to no avail.

Now I wrote a standalone script to pull the data from the DB just to check it was working correctly and it is:

قل اعوذ برب الناس
ملك الناس
اله الناس
من شر الوسواس الخناس
الذى يوسوس فى صدور الناس
من الجنه والناس

So why doesn't it display properly in CI?

Thanks.