title: dropdown doesn't display UTF-8 correctly
body: <p>I have a <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> element with some options on a dropdown. on that dropdown i have product some of these product have names that come up with special characters like é. But on the front-end instead of showing the é it shows the Ã¤ characters.</p>
  
  <p>for solution I tried to use special characters like &Eacute; for é inside a textfield. But when I replace the é with &Eacute; inside a textfield, on the front-end it shows the &Eacute; My magento store charset is utf8.</p>
  
  <p>i want to use é, $, ä etc... of my Magento store. is there any way to solve this problem tihs doesn't affect the rest of the website</p>