Django Haystack : search for a term with and without accents

Question

I\'m implementing a search system onto my django project, using django haystack. The problem is that some fields in my models have some french accents, and I would like to f

Answer 1

I find a way to index both value from the same field in my Model.

First, write a method in your model which returns the ascii value of the fields:

class Car(models.Model):
    name = model.CharField()

    def ascii_name(self):
        return strip_accents(self.name)

So that in your template used to generate the index, you could do this:

{{ object.name }}
{{ object.ascii_name }}

Then, you just have to rebuild your indexes !