Intercepting or Overriding JSTL tags

Is there any way to over ride the implementation to JSP C:out tag ? I want to intercept the decoding of string and replace all the new line with space which are being decoded by the c tag.

<c:out value="hell0 /n hello"> hello hello TO <c:out value="hello /n hello"> //back end processes strips out the /n to space and represent it as: hello hello