From f195dec501e453520765dbba6064b2de129e40dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Galigniana <marcelogaligniana@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:50:12 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add `unaccent` to `SearchFilter`

---
 docs/api-guide/filtering.md |  2 ++
 rest_framework/filters.py   |  1 +
 tests/test_filters.py       | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
index ff5f3c7759..de8a5c5579 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ The search behavior may be specified by prefixing field names in `search_fields`
 | `$`    | `iregex`      | Regex search.      |
 | `@`    | `search`      | Full-text search (Currently only supported Django's [PostgreSQL backend][postgres-search]). |
 | None   | `icontains`   | Contains search (Default).  |
+| `&`    | `unaccent`    | Accent-insensitive search. (Currently only supported Django's [PostgreSQL backend][postgres-lookups]). |
 
 For example:
 
@@ -370,3 +371,4 @@ The [djangorestframework-word-filter][django-rest-framework-word-search-filter]
 [HStoreField]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/#hstorefield
 [JSONField]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/#jsonfield
 [postgres-search]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/contrib/postgres/search/
+[postgres-lookups]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/contrib/postgres/lookups/#unaccent
diff --git a/rest_framework/filters.py b/rest_framework/filters.py
index 3f4730da84..d54a3b7338 100644
--- a/rest_framework/filters.py
+++ b/rest_framework/filters.py
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ class SearchFilter(BaseFilterBackend):
         '=': 'iexact',
         '@': 'search',
         '$': 'iregex',
+        '&': 'unaccent',
     }
     search_title = _('Search')
     search_description = _('A search term.')
diff --git a/tests/test_filters.py b/tests/test_filters.py
index 6db0c3deb2..1e49d08d53 100644
--- a/tests/test_filters.py
+++ b/tests/test_filters.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from django.test.utils import override_settings
 
 from rest_framework import filters, generics, serializers
-from rest_framework.compat import coreschema
+from rest_framework.compat import coreschema, postgres_fields
 from rest_framework.exceptions import ValidationError
 from rest_framework.test import APIRequestFactory
 
@@ -305,6 +305,25 @@ class SearchListView(generics.ListAPIView):
         ]
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not postgres_fields, reason='psycopg2 is not installed')
+class SearchPostgreSQLFilterTests(TestCase):
+
+    def test_unaccent_search(self):
+        class SearchListView(generics.ListAPIView):
+            queryset = SearchFilterModel.objects.all()
+            serializer_class = SearchFilterSerializer
+            filter_backends = (filters.SearchFilter,)
+            search_fields = ('title', '&text')
+
+        obj = SearchFilterModel.objects.create(title='Accent títle', text='Accent téxt')
+        view = SearchListView.as_view()
+        request = factory.get('/', {'search': 'accent text'})
+        response = view(request)
+        assert response.data == [
+            {'id': obj.id, 'title': 'Accent títle', 'text': 'Accent téxt'}
+        ]
+
+
 class AttributeModel(models.Model):
     label = models.CharField(max_length=32)
 

From dd7d5fce1cd950fcf2d36f17d09048aff108760b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Asif Saif Uddin <auvipy@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:58:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update tests/test_filters.py

Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 tests/test_filters.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/test_filters.py b/tests/test_filters.py
index 1e49d08d53..0051167d71 100644
--- a/tests/test_filters.py
+++ b/tests/test_filters.py
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ class SearchListView(generics.ListAPIView):
         ]
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(not postgres_fields, reason='psycopg2 is not installed')
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not postgres_fields, reason='PostgreSQL support (postgres_fields) is not available')
 class SearchPostgreSQLFilterTests(TestCase):
 
     def test_unaccent_search(self):

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