Diacritical marks are truncated via Active Record

I agree, that this has got to be a charset problem, however all is already set to utf8. The database config file contains those exact values. The encoding for the database field is utf8 with collation set to "utf8_general_c"i. And the default file encoding in my IDE is, and has always been set to utf8.

What about the database driver? Wouldn't that need to be utf8 as well? Any idea how to check that?