From d92e8edf6e7f7b9eff503f268d1c0d11c2ac44a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shirou WAKAYAMA <shirou.faw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:36:50 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] set 'nonstring' arg to passthru.

---
 lib/ansible/utils/template.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/template.py b/lib/ansible/utils/template.py
index 919436895a9..a58b9399715 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/template.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/template.py
@@ -184,8 +184,7 @@ class _jinja2_vars(object):
         var = self.vars[varname]
         # HostVars is special, return it as-is, as is the special variable
         # 'vars', which contains the vars structure
-        if type(var) == str:
-            var = to_unicode(var)
+        var = to_unicode(var, nonstring="passthru")
         if isinstance(var, dict) and varname == "vars" or isinstance(var, HostVars):
             return var
         else: