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

Yes, you're on the right track here. Sometimes you do want to store fields multiple times, with different transformations applied.

An example of this in my application is that I have two title fields. One for searching which gets stemmed (the process by which test ~= test ~= tester), and another for sorting which is left alone (the stemming interferes with the sort order).

This is an analogous case.

In my schema.xml this is handled by:

The type "string" is responsible for storing the "as-is" version of the title.

By the way, it you're stripping accents just to make words easier to search for, this is something that might be worth looking into: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.ISOLatin1AccentFilterFactory