How to handle python unicode string in javascript?

Question

A dict in which the string values are unicode string like {'name': u'nav', 'school': u'mps'}

In javascript, i'm trying access that dict like

<script>
var poi = {{ dict }}  ........... //Line #1
alert( poi.name )
</script>

while rending the html page line #1 is rendered as (error):

{'lastname': u'yadav', 'age': 23, 'id': 2, 'firstname': u'sahenky'}

One python solution is to encode the unicode string into some other format like ascii or utf-8(preferred)

str = u'nav'
str.encode('utf-8, 'ignore')
>>str
nav

Is there any elegant way to encode unicode string in python or javascript?

Thomas Orozco · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-17 15:06:15Z

1

Instead of passing the actual dict to the template, JSON encode it first:

import json
json.dumps(dict)

answered Feb 17, 2014 at 15:06

Thomas Orozco

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