It depends.
If the strings are entered by the user you should stay away from using
html_safe because you open your application to html injection attacks.
If the strings come from a trusted source, it is OK to use html_safe.
On Dec 18, 5:50 pm, Linus Pettersson
<linus.petters...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> Hi!
>
> I''m importing lots of products via XML. Some characters like the
swedish å,
> ä, ö are encoded as å for instance. When I print it I just append
> .html_safe to make it appear correct.
>
> Is this a good and safe approach or should I convert the characters in some
> other way?
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