DB charset in CI 1.6.0

[eluser]Firestorm ZERO[/eluser]
I have the same problem. I have the content-type metatag in my pages and the character encoding in Firefox is set for Unicode (UTF-8). I was getting messed up characters. The database is mySQL and the table is set for 'utf-8' charset and using 'utf8_general_ci' collation. The DB config file is also set the same.

I did what dik_ has in his DB.php and added "$DB->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");" at the bottom and now the characters are displaying ok.