Python/Django: Email template is not rendered. Shows html tags and doesn't convert entities

Question

I am sending emails using a template, but the template is not being properly rendered. It shows the html tags and doesn't render special chars.

It does render the context, for example if I supply it with a "username":some_name then it will properly display the username when I do {{username}}

my_template.html:

<p>hello &oslash;</p>

In views:

from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
from django.template.loader import get_template
from django.template import Context

t = get_template('my_template.html')
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives("hi", t.render(Context({})), from_email, [user.email])
msg.send()

The received email shows up with the p tags displayed. Also, the entity appears exactly as written in the template. I'd be fine just using a .txt file except that I need the special chars to be rendered. If I write them directly in the txt file, I get an error when trying to send it.

I have also tried using django's send_mail(). Also adding an html tag to the template. Same result.

Answer 1

message.content_subtype = 'html'