Unaccent

This class provides a database transformation that removes accents and diacritics from strings. It functions as a bilateral transform, allowing for unaccented comparisons and lookups within database queries.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
bilateral	boolean = True	Indicates that the transformation can be applied to both the field and the lookup value for comparison.
lookup_name	string = unaccent	The identifier used in query expressions to apply the unaccent transformation.
function	string = UNACCENT	The database function name used to remove diacritics from strings in SQL queries.

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Constructor

Signature

def Unaccent()

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Methods

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unaccent()

def unaccent() - > [Transform](../../../db/models/lookups/transform.md?sid=django_db_models_lookups_transform)

Applies the PostgreSQL UNACCENT function to a field, removing diacritics and accents from characters for normalized text comparison.

Returns

Type	Description
[Transform](../../../db/models/lookups/transform.md?sid=django_db_models_lookups_transform)	A Transform object that represents the unaccented version of the input field.

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