non-ascii characters

["Dean A. Hoover" <dh...@rochester.rr.com>]

I have a database with ISO 3166 country
names and codes that I use to populate an
html:select. There is one country in the list
that contains a non-ascii character and I want
to make sure it shows up properly. That
country is listed in HTML as
ÅLAND ISLANDS

I have two questions regarding this non-ascii:
1) How should I encode it in my (mysql)
database? Right now I put it in with the
character reference as written above.

2) Assuming I leave it the way it is in
the database as stated in 1) above, how
do I get the html tag machinery to not
attempt to escape the ampersand? This
is the code I am using:

<td align="left">
<html:select property="contactInfoWidgetsSubFormCountryCode">
<html:options collection="countries"
              property="value" labelProperty="label"/>
</html:select>

Thanks in advance for help.
Dean Hoover


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