MySQL latin1 to UTF8 site

You should also have a meta tag in the header of your views

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

In your config you can try this settings

PHP Code:

$db['default']['char_set'] = "iso-8859-1";
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "latin1_general_ci"; // or latin1_swedish_ci 


It this not work i think you have to convert your date manual one of this methods from core php

iconv()
mb_convert_encoding()
utf8_encode() and utf8_decode()