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!