is it possible to use unicode string in template variable?

[trivita]

like {{ åß∂ƒ }} for an instance

[elapouya]

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[trivita]

this is what i got

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/trivita/mydev/send2grouk/testtpl.py", line 100, in
main()
File "/Users/trivita/mydev/send2grouk/testtpl.py", line 90, in main
doc.render(context)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docxtpl/init.py", line 126, in render
xml_src = self.build_xml(context,jinja_env)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docxtpl/init.py", line 91, in build_xml
xml = self.render_xml(xml, context, jinja_env)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docxtpl/init.py", line 83, in render_xml
template = Template(src_xml)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 926, in new
return env.from_string(source, template_class=cls)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 862, in from_string
return cls.from_code(self, self.compile(source), globals, None)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 565, in compile
self.handle_exception(exc_info, source_hint=source_hint)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 754, in handle_exception
reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
File "", line 1, in template
jinja2.exceptions.TemplateSyntaxError: unexpected char u'\xe5' at 4067

[trivita]

looks like jinja2 doesnt support that

jinja2 doc says

As a matter of fact non ASCII characters are currently not allowed. This limitation will probably go away as soon as unicode identifiers are fully specified for Python 3.

[trivita]

so python3 support this