[OpenLayers-Users] accented characters in openlayers

[zach cruise]

i have accented characters (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ) in my wfs/gml that
openlayers is messing up (if i insert them directly in my javascript,
they display fine, ergo).

i am extracting them using OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(layer1,
{callback: {...} } );

so how do you display accented characters?