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Using non-ascii in Django templates
I hope some reader can help me uit here…
We were trying to use non Ascii characters (like ♥ for example) in the Django templates, but couldn’t get it to work.
We worked around this by using a template variable ( {{ nonAsciiHeart }} for example) and then put the following in the view:
nonAsciiHeart = '\xe2\x99\xa5'
return render('example_template.html', {'nonAsciiHeart': nonAsciiHeart})
There must be a better way to do this. Does anyone know how? Please share it in the comments!
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Assuming you’re using Django 1.0 or later (well, anything since the unicode merge landed in Django, which was just after 0.96), you can use non-ASCII characters in templates. It would be a bit short-sighted if we supported non-ASCII everywhere except in templates!
You must be doing something a bit unusual here. The most likely thing I can think of is your files aren’t saved as UTF-8. Django assumes the template files are in UTF-8 (it has to assume something, since auto-character set detection is unreliable in many cases) and if you have saved the files in some other encoding, you’ll need to set the FILE_CHARSET setting appropriately. Have a look at the ref/unicode.txt documentation file for information.
I just rechecked this with the exact example you’re using and it loads from a template file and renders without problems.