how to have Accent-insensitive filter in django with postgres?

Question

Hi I find that on postgres database, we can\'t configure default accent sensivity (on old mail exchanges).

Is there a way to have a _icontains also insensitive to specia

Answer 1

I don't believe you'll be able to use the standard Django field-lookups for this unless you store a non-accented version of your text in another column and do the lookup there. You could add a duplicate column with editable=False and override the model's save() method to update that field from the original accented text.

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