[Django] #25529: Cannot use filters for plain text templates due to non-breaking spaces between values and units

[Django]

#25529: Cannot use filters for plain text templates due to non-breaking spaces
between values and units
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Reporter: quantoid | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Template system | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Keywords: filters
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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#20246 added `\xa0` characters between numbers and units in various
filters like `timesince`.

This means you can't easily use these filters in templates that generate
plain text content, e.g. text that you want to send to another service as
part of handling a request.

We need a way to turn off those non-breaking spaces in the filters that
use them.

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25529>
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[Django]

#25529: Avoid non-breaking spaces between values and units when using filters in
plain text templates
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Reporter: quantoid | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Template system | Version: 1.8

Severity: Normal | Resolution:

Keywords: filters | Triage Stage: Unreviewed

Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0

Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0

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Changes (by quantoid):

* needs_better_patch: => 0
* needs_docs: => 0
* needs_tests: => 0

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25529#comment:1>

[Django]

#25529: Avoid non-breaking spaces between values and units when using filters in
plain text templates
---------------------------------+--------------------------------------

Reporter: quantoid | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Template system | Version: 1.8

Severity: Normal | Resolution:

Keywords: filters | Triage Stage: Unreviewed

Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0

Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0

Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0

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Comment (by claudep):

Sorry, but it's not very clear to me why you couldn't have non-breaking
spaces in plain text. Could you elaborate a bit?

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25529#comment:2>

[Django]

#25529: Avoid non-breaking spaces between values and units when using filters in
plain text templates
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Reporter: quantoid | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: closed

Component: Template system | Version: 1.8

Severity: Normal | Resolution: worksforme

Keywords: filters | Triage Stage: Unreviewed

Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0

Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0

Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0

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Changes (by claudep):

* status: new => closed
* resolution: => worksforme

Comment:

Please reopen if you can show your issue corresponds to a common use case.
Otherwise, I think it wouldn't be hard to create your own template filter
(`to_ascii`?) and chain with the appropriate filters (might also be
implemented by a custom response middleware).

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25529#comment:3>