How use `unaccent` with full text search in django 1.10?

Question

We are working on a project and we are using Django 1.10a1, we\'re using django full text search with PostgreSQL but we need to use unaccent.

So, I have thi

Answer 1

Install the unaccent extension into your database:

mydb=# CREATE EXTENSION unaccent;

Create a new search configuration, based on an other one:

mydb=# CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION french_unaccent( COPY = french );

Insert the unaccent dictionary into your new search configuration:

mydb=# ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION french_unaccent
    ALTER MAPPING FOR hword, hword_part, word
    WITH unaccent, french_stem;

Use this configuration in your Django query :

search = 'Car'
query_set = Article.objects.annotate(
                search=SearchVector('content','name', config='french_unaccent')
            ).filter(search=SearchQuery(search, config='french_unaccent')))