Render HTML in django template (not unicode but ASCII)

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I understand that this is a little perverse, but I have a legacy database with some entries as formatted html. I'd like to just push this into my django templates as ASCII and let the browser display it.

Django kindly converts my fields to unicode, and so the browser displays the entire text <p> </p> etc. intact.

I was hoping that there might be a template flag {{ obj.text|ascii }} or something that might fix this for me - does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

"Render unicode as ASCII" is rather meaningless. Please change the title to something that better reflects what you're trying to accomplish. — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Commented Apr 22, 2011 at 0:03
This doesn't have anything to do with either unicode or ASCII. — Daniel Roseman
– Daniel Roseman, Commented Apr 22, 2011 at 18:59

Dan D. · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-23 05:09:15Z

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From http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/ what you want is:

{{ obj.text|safe }}

edited Feb 23, 2014 at 5:09

answered Apr 21, 2011 at 22:38

Dan D.

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danodonovan Over a year ago

Excellent! Ta muchly. Now why couldn't I find that?

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