Punctuation / Apostrophes gets mangled

[mlissner]

In this post, I summarized it as "Elon's election interference" and on BlueSky we got:

Same on Twitter too:

[ajonnav]

Hi, this is my first time working on an issue so let me know if I am doing things wrong.

I was able to reproduce this issue -- the problem seems to be that Django templates autoescape HTML characters. One potential fix would be to add the autoescape tag (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/ref/templates/builtins/#autoescape) to the templates; another similar fix would be to add the safe filter (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/ref/templates/builtins/#safe) to variables that do not need to be escaped. It seems like the first option would be easier to implement and perhaps a little more maintainable -- I would just enclose the existing templates in the autoescape tag, and people would just need to ensure that they do the same for new templates.

Let me know if you have concerns. In particular, it is not clear to me where the input values for the templates come from so let me know if not escaping the inputs would be a bad idea.

[mlissner]

Hi! Thanks for picking up this issue and for stepping forward to claim it. You're doing this the right way.

I'm not in this code enough to have an opinion about this, but the data is generally considered safe (it's coming exclusively from trusted curators). Want to do a little PR and see how that goes?