diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/includes/fieldset.html b/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/includes/fieldset.html
index 4a6769438c..a61795cfe4 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/includes/fieldset.html
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/includes/fieldset.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
           {% else %}
               {{ field.label_tag }}{{ field.field }}
           {% endif %}
-          {% if field.field.field.help_text %}<p class="help">{{ field.field.field.help_text }}</p>{% endif %}
+          {% if field.field.field.help_text %}<p class="help">{{ field.field.field.help_text|safe }}</p>{% endif %}
       {% endfor %}
       </div>
   {% endfor %}
diff --git a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
index 380e571b00..e98957da2c 100644
--- a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
+++ b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ been reviewed for security issues. Don't use it for production use.
 """
 
 from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
-from types import ListType, StringType
 import mimetypes
 import os
 import re
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ def _formatparam(param, value=None, quote=1):
 class Headers(object):
     """Manage a collection of HTTP response headers"""
     def __init__(self,headers):
-        if type(headers) is not ListType:
+        if not isinstance(headers, list):
             raise TypeError("Headers must be a list of name/value tuples")
         self._headers = headers
 
@@ -327,7 +326,7 @@ class ServerHandler(object):
         """Compute Content-Length or switch to chunked encoding if possible"""
         try:
             blocks = len(self.result)
-        except (TypeError,AttributeError,NotImplementedError):
+        except (TypeError, AttributeError, NotImplementedError):
             pass
         else:
             if blocks==1:
@@ -356,14 +355,14 @@ class ServerHandler(object):
         elif self.headers is not None:
             raise AssertionError("Headers already set!")
 
-        assert type(status) is StringType,"Status must be a string"
+        assert isinstance(status, str),"Status must be a string"
         assert len(status)>=4,"Status must be at least 4 characters"
         assert int(status[:3]),"Status message must begin w/3-digit code"
         assert status[3]==" ", "Status message must have a space after code"
         if __debug__:
             for name,val in headers:
-                assert type(name) is StringType,"Header names must be strings"
-                assert type(val) is StringType,"Header values must be strings"
+                assert isinstance(name, str),"Header names must be strings"
+                assert isinstance(val, str),"Header values must be strings"
                 assert not is_hop_by_hop(name),"Hop-by-hop headers not allowed"
         self.status = status
         self.headers = self.headers_class(headers)
@@ -386,7 +385,7 @@ class ServerHandler(object):
     def write(self, data):
         """'write()' callable as specified by PEP 333"""
 
-        assert type(data) is StringType,"write() argument must be string"
+        assert isinstance(data, str), "write() argument must be string"
 
         if not self.status:
             raise AssertionError("write() before start_response()")
diff --git a/django/template/__init__.py b/django/template/__init__.py
index c68a4b544d..9b1868cfce 100644
--- a/django/template/__init__.py
+++ b/django/template/__init__.py
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ class NodeList(list):
                 bits.append(self.render_node(node, context))
             else:
                 bits.append(node)
-        return ''.join([force_unicode(b) for b in bits])
+        return mark_safe(''.join([force_unicode(b) for b in bits]))
 
     def get_nodes_by_type(self, nodetype):
         "Return a list of all nodes of the given type"
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/templates/unicode.py b/tests/regressiontests/templates/unicode.py
index efda11c2da..e5f308d202 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/templates/unicode.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/templates/unicode.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 unicode_tests = ur"""
 Templates can be created from unicode strings.
 >>> from django.template import *
+>>> from django.utils.safestring import SafeData
 >>> t1 = Template(u'ŠĐĆŽćžšđ {{ var }}')
 
 Templates can also be created from bytestrings. These are assumed by encoded
@@ -24,10 +25,13 @@ Contexts can be constructed from unicode or UTF-8 bytestrings.
 >>> c4 = Context({u'var': '\xc4\x90\xc4\x91'})
 
 Since both templates and all four contexts represent the same thing, they all
-render the same (and are returned as unicode objects).
+render the same (and are returned as unicode objects and "safe" objects as
+well, for auto-escaping purposes).
 
 >>> t1.render(c3) == t2.render(c3)
 True
->>> type(t1.render(c3))
-<type 'unicode'>
+>>> isinstance(t1.render(c3), unicode)
+True
+>>> isinstance(t1.render(c3), SafeData)
+True
 """