From e9950ed897fba3a98dd1221ad9e9b610bb5bc0c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:15:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [2.1.x] Fixed utils.html.escape()'s docs with regards to
 string coercion.

As of 301de774c21d055e9e5a7073e5bffdb52bc71079.
Backport of 1ed8527e3df930ae54ef237e77f1a53faa0ff5ed from master
---
 docs/ref/utils.txt | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt
index d48ea27009..63b2e3be4b 100644
--- a/docs/ref/utils.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt
@@ -589,8 +589,7 @@ escaping HTML.
 .. function:: escape(text)
 
     Returns the given text with ampersands, quotes and angle brackets encoded
-    for use in HTML. The input is first passed through
-    :func:`~django.utils.encoding.force_text` and the output has
+    for use in HTML. The input is first coerced to a string and the output has
     :func:`~django.utils.safestring.mark_safe` applied.
 
 .. function:: conditional_escape(text)