title: jsp java How to show accented characters correctly
body: <p>I have a spring + hibernate java project that is saving a value data into DB like this: '<code>Ingl&amp;eacute;s</code>' where <code>&amp;eacute</code>; stands for é.</p>
  
  <p>But when the jsp shows it: <code>&lt;c:out value="${area.descripcion}"/&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>the page is shown like this: '<code>Ingl&amp;eacute;s</code>'.</p>
  
  <p>How Can I make to show the word correctly like this: Inglés ?</p>
  
  <p>the web.xml has configured the encoding:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;filter&gt;
      &lt;filter-name&gt;characterEncodingFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt;
      &lt;filter-class&gt;org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter&lt;/filter-class&gt;
      &lt;init-param&gt;
          &lt;param-name&gt;encoding&lt;/param-name&gt;
          &lt;param-value&gt;UTF-8&lt;/param-value&gt;
      &lt;/init-param&gt;
      &lt;init-param&gt;
          &lt;param-name&gt;forceEncoding&lt;/param-name&gt;
          &lt;param-value&gt;true&lt;/param-value&gt;
      &lt;/init-param&gt;
  &lt;/filter&gt;
  </code></pre>