[eluser]Andres Ledesma[/eluser]
Hello guys! just for the record, I'm working with Spanish especial chars, and this is what I did to get it rollin. Change the values in the database.php inside your config folder like these:
$db['default']['char_set'] = "latin1";
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "latin1_swedish_ci";
Then just make sure that the collation of your attributes in your db are "latin1_swedish_ci".
And that is all!
Hope this helps someone!
Cheers!