Fixed #5025 -- Add a "truncatechars" template filter. Many thanks to Chris Beaven.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16542 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

docs/internals/deprecation.txt

@@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ their deprecation, as per the :ref:`Django deprecation policy
           was deprecated since Django 1.4 and will be removed in favor of the
           generic static files handling.
 
+        * The builin truncation functions
+          :func:`django.utils.text.truncate_words` and
+          :func:`django.utils.text.truncate_html_words`
+          were deprecated since Django 1.4 and will be removed in favor
+          of the ``django.utils.text.Truncator`` class.
+
     * 2.0
         * ``django.views.defaults.shortcut()``. This function has been moved
           to ``django.contrib.contenttypes.views.shortcut()`` as part of the

docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt

@@ -2055,6 +2055,24 @@ For example::
 
 If ``value`` is ``"my first post"``, the output will be ``"My First Post"``.
 
+.. templatefilter:: truncatechars
+
+truncatechars
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.4
+
+Truncates a string if it is longer than the specified number of characters.
+Truncated strings will end with a translatable ellipsis sequence ("...").
+
+**Argument:** Number of characters to truncate to
+
+For example::
+
+    {{ value|truncatechars:9 }}
+
+If ``value`` is ``"Joel is a slug"``, the output will be ``"Joel i..."``.
+
 .. templatefilter:: truncatewords
 
 truncatewords

docs/releases/1.4.txt

@@ -145,6 +145,14 @@ A new helper function,
 ``template.Library`` to ease the creation of template tags that store some
 data in a specified context variable.
 
+``truncatechars`` template filter
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Added a filter which truncates a string to be no longer than the specified
+number of characters. Truncated strings end with a translatable ellipsis
+sequence ("..."). See the :tfilter:`truncatechars docs <truncatechars>` for
+more details.
+
 CSRF improvements
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~