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render jinja variable to json string without unicode prefix
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jinja_json_without_unicode.py
# Issue #
When I want to print jinja variable to a json, the default filter will add a 'u' prefix to indicate the string encoding, but the configuration file sees this as syntax error.
## Resources
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8710758/json-is-appearing-as-unicode-entities-in-jinja2-template
* https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_filters.html
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