How to create a slug from non-English values?-CodePudding

I have the model Author with fields firstname, lastname. I wanna add another field 'slug' that will contain a slug of a concatenation of the fields. However, these fields contain non-English chars and I need an English slug to create the link template "localhost/authors/str::slug" How can I implement it?

CodePudding user response：

To solve this problem you can use the unidecode and slugify.
you should install it by pip install unidecode

from unidecode import unidecode
from django.template import defaultfilters
slug = defaultfilters.slugify(unidecode(input_text))

example:

import unidecode
a = unidecode.unidecode('привет')
the answer will be ('privet') #this is just an example in russian.
and after that you can apply slugify

CodePudding user response：

You can first convert the name to latin characters using trans.

pip install trans

from trans import trans
from django.utils.text import slugify

author_slug = slugify( trans(first_name   " "   last_name) )

Or if you don't mind characters like: ,