Spanish accent mark using HtmlHelper in CakePHP 1.2

Question

I am reading the documentation at https://book.cakephp.org/1.2/en/The-Manual/Core-Helpers/HTML.html#link, and I see this:

link(string $title, mixed $url = null, array $htmlAttributes = array(), string $confirmMessage = false, boolean $escapeTitle = true)

string $title is where I want to put text with a Spanish accent mark. The text is aquí, so I tried using aquí and it did not work. Using aquí did not work either. In the first case the result was this the website printing exactly aquí. In the second case, the text was not even displayed at all. How can I print Spanish accent marks or in general, Spanish special characters, using the HtmlHelper in CakePHP 1.2? Thank you.

Answer 1

This is how it works correctly for me now:

<span class="bold">
    <?php echo  $html->link('aqu&iacute;', array('controller' => 'products', 'action' => 'change_product'), array('target' => '_self', 'class'=>'js-thickbox', 'escape' => false)); ?>
</span>