character encoding issue

Greetings.

I have all my tables with the UTF8 charset. But, for some reason, when i print the results, the pontuated characters have problems.

For example, "é" becomes "é".

Event if i print <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />, i get almost the same problem. But, this time, "é" becomes "é".

This wiki might help http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/16/how-to-set-up-unicode