How to decode html entities in JasperReports

Question

I have some reports written in JasperReports and they display html entities literally, for example, bullet point • is shown using html entity textual representation: #8226;.

Do you know any way around it?

Answer 1

In the textField set the markup attribute as html.

Answer 2

As the reports are XML layouts, they can be converted to UTF-8 easily as 8226 is the Unicode number.

Answer 3

If you are using iReport for designing the reports, checkout "markup" property in the properties window, for that particular field.