CakePHP utf8 special character chinese character

i involve in some database with a chinese character.
It turns out my find('all') give me "????" for the chinese character

After some google, this is because database encoding. Its need to be utf-8
So this is the link thats help me http://nik.chankov.net/2007/10/01/cakephp-and-character-set-in-the-database/

Conclusion is, inside the database.php put the 'encoding'

class DATABASE_CONFIG {

var $default = array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => 'user',
'password' => 'password',
'database' => 'project_name',
'prefix' => '',
'encoding' => 'utf8'
);
}

What will happen actually is before any SQL query is executed.
It will execute this code first, I think.

"SET NAMES 'utf8'"

Just to remind something. If there is a case you table Collation/charset is not utf-8 means you will not be able to use Chinese character. So here is the tweak

ALTER TABLE 'tblcustomers' COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

And still, my website did not display the chinese character.
So I end it with

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf8"$gt;

and the problem is solve

Yeah!