need help on unicode

[eluser]daydreamer[/eluser]
I have little progress, if I run $this->db->query("SET NAMES 'latin1'"); before every CI query, I will get the correct result.

What's wrong here? Any suggestion?

Apache 2 + Mysql 5.1.53 on Windows Vista

[eluser]daydreamer[/eluser]
Finally solved with help of this post:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/20...in1_t.html