Character encoding, CodeIgniter and MySQL

[eluser]Gaz[/eluser]
I've got that in the header of all my pages, yeah.

I don't think validating the source of the page is going to help really. This issue is that when the data is sent to the database, certain characters are converted to question marks.

Both CI, PHP and MySQL are all set up to use UTF-8, but it seems I'm obviously missing something somewhere.

Cheers,
Gaz.