Question

I have a lib/languages.py file only with a dict format e.g.:

en = {}
en["farewell"] = "goddbye"
es = {}
es["farewell"] = "Adiós"

Also I have a lib/basehandler.py where I use language.py and this basehandler has a Unicode literal (# –– coding: utf-8 ––)

The problem is that when I render a template in Spanish (es), the html has “Adi&ocuate;s” instead “Adi&oaucte;s”

I tried to use on languages.py

es["farewell"] = "Adiós"

or add Unicode literal (# –– coding: utf-8 ––), but nothing work.

Can anyone please, tell me what I’m doing wrong or what’s the best way to work with Unicode on Jinja2

Here is the source code https://github.com/coto/gae-boilerplate and if you want to see the problem http://appengine.protoboard.cl/?&hl=es

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The library you’re using of jinja2 has autoescape default set to True. You may override this in your code by going to basehandler.py, and look for these lines:

@webapp2.cached_property
def jinja2(self):
    return jinja2.get_jinja2(app=self.app)

Replace it with this:

@webapp2.cached_property
def jinja2(self):
    return jinja2.get_jinja2(app=self.app,{'environment_args':{'autoescape':False}})

I’m not sure if environment_args and autoescape in the additional code above need the single quotes or not. Feel free to try different variations of them.

If you want to keep autoescape True as the default, then you can just add |safe to each variable in your template.

For example in home.html

{{ lang.text_title }}

becomes

{{ lang.text_title|safe }}

and so on…