How to convert font awesome unicode to icon

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I am trying show icons in my input placeholder. In rails i was using that code

“& #xf1e3;”.html_safe

How can i handle that in phoenix ?

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I solved with raw() function. My second question is Can that way cause a security issue ? It is just for show icon in placeholder

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I would advise against passing variables into that function, but you should be fine if you are only using it for icons.

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This can only be a security issue if You expose raw() to user’s input, not if You set yourself the string.

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