Latin letter problem!

Hi, I'm building an simple CMS system. I have built almost everything but one thing buggs me... I have a MySQL database built for publishing news (Id,title,newsContent,timestamp). And I have a php web page that displays that content. The problem is with the charset, in the database the settings are following: character set latin2 collation latin2_croatian_ci; and in the tables character set utf8; I display the data in the php page using utf8 I see all the non-PHP content pure HTML content capable of seeing croatian letter čćžšđ, but in the news section I only see čćđ. But they are on the same page! I tried putting other HTML charsets like iso-8859-1,iso-8859-2 etc... But in all the scenarios I get the HTMl part working but PHP not working vice-versa... Please help me it is a very important web page if you need any other information just ask! Thank you very much in advance!