# \[MinorDocIssue\]Templates and non alphanumeric messages

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/minordocissue-templates-and-non-alphanumeric-messages/15595
**Category:** General
**Created:** [16 September 2019 19:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/minordocissue-templates-and-non-alphanumeric-messages/15595 "2019-09-16T19:09:26Z")
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### Author: ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [16 September 2019 19:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/minordocissue-templates-and-non-alphanumeric-messages/15595/1 "2019-09-16T19:09:26Z")

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I was sending an image (converted to Base64 string) thru a template and I couldn't decode it back to an image afterwards

Eventually after testing out simpler flow, I realised that the template was seeing non-alphanumeric chars in the Base64 encoding and that was mucking things up

So I replaced my {{ }} with {{{ }}} and all was well

So I'm suggesting that the node info could be changed from

**Note:** By default, _mustache_ will escape any HTML entities in the values it substitutes. To prevent this, use `{{{triple}}}` braces

to something like

**Note:** By default, _mustache_ will escape any non-alphanumeric or HTML entities in the values it substitutes. To prevent this, use `{{{triple}}}` braces

I did say it was minor 🙂