Flask : Unable to render Unicode Characters in Webpage

Question

I am trying to print devnagari (hindi) on a webpage using flask. However, on browsing to the webpage, the unicode I am passing is converted to a string. Program -

from flask import jsonify, Flask
from flask_restful import Resource, Api

app = Flask(__name__)
api = Api(app)

class Text(Resource):
    def get(self):
        textInput = u'\u0960'
        return textInput

api.add_resource(Text, '/')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Output :

"\u0960"

Expected Output :

ॠ

Answer 1

If you use Flask's make_response to return a response instance, it works fine:

from flask import jsonify, Flask, make_response
from flask_restful import Resource, Api

app = Flask(__name__)
api = Api(app)

class Text(Resource):
    def get(self):
        textInput = u'\u0960'
        return make_response(textInput)

api.add_resource(Text, '/')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)