[Rails] special characters in db

[Johan Chaves Saborío]

This is my first message in this list, so hi everybody!!! (by the way, sorry
for my english)

I am developing a spanish applications, so some data has special characters
(á, é, ñ, etc...) in database....

The problem is that those caracters display incorrectly in browser, how can
I handle that situation with RoR???

Does it exist a "parser" that convert those characters in their respective
html entities (á, é, ñ) to store it that way in
database???

and if so, how can I tell to the helper methods (collection_select, for
example) to not escape those caracters (I tried to render data stored with
html entities "collection_select" scape the "&" character)

Regards!!!
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