Aviod escaping in text out put

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Hi there I’m getting error in json output string as Hugo is out putting escap characters with errors which are not necessary in json and also converting special characters into codes.

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From screenshot You can see jsonlint isn’t validating it.
My actual text is “That’s some dummy text”.

[Detail] Actually I’m trying to output description of my post. I’m following this post. After getting everything done when I validated my ld+json using Google validator, google spotted an error which jsonlint also showing. I tried many things but no hope. Keep in mind that if edit text in jsonlint text box and write "description": "That's some dummy text." error goes away. That means error lies with escaping ' by \. Also note that escaping of quotation mark " is needed in every case.
Please any guide.
TY!

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Meet your new best friend safeJS:

There are sibling functions for HTML, CSS, URLs, HTMLAttributes.

Use it like this:

{{ somethingthatwouldbeescaped | safeJS }}
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bro just explain me how. i’ve something like:

"description": "{{ if .Params.description }}{{ .Params.description }}{{ else }}{{ .Summary }}{{ end }}"
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"description": "{{ if .Params.description }}{{ .Params.description | safeJS }}{{ else }}{{ .Summary | safeJS }}{{ end }}"
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I tried that but not working. what I found from another old issue is that removing " like

  "description": {{ if .Params.description }}{{ .Params.description | safeJS }}{{ else }}{{ .Summary | safeJS }}{{ end }}

will remove this error but that also failed. because that’s output a naked text not a string.

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congs! I’s just playing with some of other funtions and believe me htmlUnescape instead of safeJs worked very well. below is how my code looks now:

  "description": {{ if .Params.description }}{{ .Params.description | htmlUnescape }}{{ else }}{{ .Summary | htmlUnescape }}{{ end }}

Thanks btw.
Google structure data validator accepted it and it’s outputting pure string.

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A change of direction.

My personal preference when building JSON with Hugo: create your data structure in code (using dict and slice and such) then convert it to JSON using the jsonify function. This avoids the to quote or not quote dance.

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