There's many utf8 collations so you should specify something specific to default to. I recently read to use utf8_unicode_ci [0] is the best. [0] http://philstu

There's many utf8 collations so you should specify something specific to default to. I recently read to use utf8_unicode_ci [0] is the best. [0] http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2009/08/UTF-8-support-for-CodeIgniter http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2009/08/UTF-8-support-for-Cod...