BUG: UTF-8 does NOT work!

[eluser]Vasu Adiga[/eluser]
How did you resolve this finally? I am facing the same issue as you...plain php/mysqli works fine, but codeigniter doesn't. Note that the data was inserted into DB by java program (not php).

[quote author="AzizLight" date="1267642573"]Thanks for all your replies. The reason I called this a "BUG" is because accents don't appear correctly even though my db has a UTF-8 charset, I have have a meta tag that sets the content to UTF-8, I used php to set the content type to UTF-8 too (using the header() function), so it should work, but it doesn't. The weirdest thing is that if I take the same data from the same DB using plain php/mysqli, everything works fine. But if I use it withing a codeigniter install, it does't work at all...

I also tried to create a new CI project and connect to the same database but it still didn't work.

About the texteditor, as I said before, I use Textmate, and the file encoding is set to UTF-8 in the preferences, so there shouldn't be any problems...

At this point I have no clue what the problems is, but my logic says that it comes from CodeIgniter...[/quote]