Default escaping in Freemarker

In Freemarker templates we can use the escape directive to automatically apply an escaping to all interpolations inside the included block:

<#escape x as x?html>
  <#-- name is escaped as html -->
  Hallo, ${name}
</#escape>

Is there a way to programmatically achieve a similar effect, defining a default escape applied to all interpolations in the template, including those outside escape directives?

Thanks.