Question

I have some intl characters in a field that django is returning as a bytestring – how can I convert it back for display in my template?

EDIT for clarification:
I have some japanese text in bytestring in my db:

‘\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x82\xa4\xe3\x83\x90\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\xbc \xe3\x83\x9d\xe3\x83\xaa\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\xbc’

I’d like to convert it back to
プライバシー ポリシー”

(Note: Django didn’t save it in my db this way – the data was imported.)

Answer 1

That text works fine for me in the shell:

>>> from django import template
>>> s = '\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x82\xa4\xe3\x83\x90\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\xbc \xe3\x83\x9d\xe3\x83\xaa\xe3\x82\xb7\xe3\x83\xbc'
>>> t = template.Template('{{ s }}')
>>> print t.render(template.Context({'s': s}))
プライバシー ポリシー

so I’m not sure where you’re having problems.