database is utf-8, page is utf-8, but i get weird characters

My MySQL5 database is encoded in utf-8, and the page is as well (which
is declared in the html meta tags), however when I generate a select
field with the form helper, an uncommon character (é to be precise)
shows up as a question-diamond in firefox. if i manually set firefox
to use western (iso-8859-1) the character shows up fine.

what goes wrong here?
thanks

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