https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21413613/convert-ansible-variable-from-unicode-to-ascii
if you really do have an array:
[u'string1', u'string2', u'string3']
And you want your template/whatever result to be NOT:
ABC=[u'string1', u'string2', u'string3']
But you prefer:
ABC=["string1", "string2", "string3"]
Then, this will do the trick:
ABC=["{{ iscsiname.stdout_lines | list | join("\", \"") }}"]