How do I escape HTML by default in Liquid?

Question

I know that it's possible to escape HTML in liquid by using the escape filter

# cthulhu is "<blink>blink</blink>"

{{ cthulhu || escape }}

but is it possible to make liquid escape the HTML in all variables by default?

I know that Rails escapes all HTML by default, but I have to use html_safe because otherwise all the HTML within the liquid template is escaped.

I only found this issue on GitHub, which told the OP to just ask on Stack Overflow.

Saad

This still seems to be an issue in 2022. There is a "new" open issue which unfortunately has no answers or solutions. – Dol

It looks like it uses a single pipe, not the bitwise 'or'? shopify.github.io/liquid/filters/escape – Leak