Maybe you could just build a simple index? It'd basically be a set of keywords, each with a set of matching books. So in your example, you'd have two keywords:
hola (with accent) -> book1, book2, etc.. hola (without accent) -> (same as previous) And then just write some sort of functionality to run through your data and index it to a table. I can't vouch that this is the best approach - but I think it'd at least solve the problem. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:03 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/tdIUkptWpZgJ. > 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. > -- 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.
