FREEMARKER: avoid escaping HTML chars

Having a problem with freemarker output...

                [#assign optionsHTML = ""]                    
                [#list data as item]
                    [#assign optionsHTML = optionsHTML + '<option value="' + item.value +'>'+ item.label + '</option>' /]
                [/#list]

so, if I do

<select>
${iptionsHTML}
</select>

the output from otions get html entities instead of actual html.... so

<option value=&quot .....

even if I do

            [#assign optionsHTML = ""]                    
            [#list data as item]
                [#noescape]
                [#assign optionsHTML = optionsHTML + '<option value="' + item.value +'>'+ item.label + '</option>' /]
                [/#noescape]
            [/#list]

tried even

<select>
${iptionsHTML?html}
</select>

but's even worse :(

So after trying stuff, I don't know what I've done wrong before, but clean, this way is working

[#assign optionsHTML = ""]                    
[#list data as item]
   [#assign optionsHTML = optionsHTML + '<option value="' + item.value +'>'+ item.label + '</option>' /]
[/#list]



<select>
   [#noescape]
   ${optionsHTML}
   [/#noescape]
</select>