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| author | Jannis Leidel <jannis@leidel.info> | 2011-06-17 15:39:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Jannis Leidel <jannis@leidel.info> | 2011-06-17 15:39:35 +0000 |
| commit | f8a3d87a199a54305a0f50e24a00fa253fa43766 (patch) | |
| tree | 4397ff979873fef4b2cac743e317faa6afef3d98 | |
| parent | 2a122be0fc92f12df16eeac65c9dc48516cf499a (diff) | |
Fixed #16071 -- Added note to fix_ampersands documentation about its limitations. Many thanks to jerry and Julien Phalip.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16431 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt index 2216b6efef..ed8e234c29 100644 --- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt +++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt @@ -1510,6 +1510,14 @@ For example:: If ``value`` is ``Tom & Jerry``, the output will be ``Tom & Jerry``. +However, ampersands used in named entities and numeric character references +will not be replaced. For example, if ``value`` is ``Café``, the output +will *not* be ``Café&`` but remain ``Café``. This means that +in some edge cases, such as acronyms followed by semicolons, this filter will +not replace ampersands that need replacing. For example, if ``value`` is +``Contact the R&D;``, the output will remain unchanged because ``&D;`` +resembles a named entity. + .. templatefilter:: floatformat floatformat |