Django The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Overview Download Documentation News Community Code About ♥ Donate Documentation 1.8 Documentation version: development ¶ ¶ The unaccent lookup allows you to perform accent-insensitive lookups using a dedicated PostgreSQL extension. This lookup is implemented using Transform , so it can be chained with other lookup functions. To use it, you need to add 'django.contrib.postgres' in your INSTALLED_APPS and activate the unaccent extension on PostgreSQL . The UnaccentExtension migration operation is available if you want to perform this activation using migrations). The unaccent lookup can be used on CharField and TextField : >>> City . objects . filter ( name__unaccent = "México" ) ['<City: Mexico>'] >>> User . objects . filter ( first_name__unaccent__startswith = "Jerem" ) ['<U...