Hi, if you are using postgreSQL, I released a week ago a library to do just what you need: see: https://github.com/djcoin/django-unaccent/
Once you got the `unaccent` function set up in your postgreSQL db, you can make unaccented search from the Django ORM as usual. Eg: Given a book title of "The book of Café", `Book.objects.filter(title__icontains_unaccent='Cafe')` will match Cheers, Simon On Jun 1, 7:03 pm, Joni Bekenstein <jonibekenst...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to do a simple search ignoring some characters with accents. The > idea would be that "hola" matches the search term "holá". > > What I'm currently doing is adding a CharField to my model to store the > searchable term. For example: > > class Book(models.Model): > title = models.CharField(max_length=100) > searchable_title = models.CharField(max_length=100) > > When I save a Book I'll replace the accented characters in title with their > non-accented counterparts and store the result in searchable_title. The, > I'll also do the same thing with the search term before actually doing the > query. > > I don't like this approach because if I need to add more searchable fields > things start getting noisy in my models. > > Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
