IntegrityError on accented tags

[ajendrex]

Hello,

I added the tag "Gestion" and saved an object. Then I edited another object and tried to add the tag "Gestión" (with the proper accent), but I have an unhandled IntegrityError from the mysql connector. I think this is a bug. For now, I think I will try removing accents before saving, but that's not what I want.

Thanks for any help,
Hector.

[ajendrex]

No I see that there are errors when a new tag is duplicated but has some capicalized letters, for example "Gestion", then "gestion" will raise an error :(

[buddylindsey]

@ajendrex this is a well known issue. In this comment on a PR #263 (comment) I linked to all the PR's that currently try to solve the issue. Also another one has been submitted since I left that comment.

[jdufresne]

You can install the package Unidecode to solve this:

• https://pypi.org/project/Unidecode/
• https://github.com/takluyver/Unidecode

If the library is present, the slug will be normalized using it. It should solve your issue:

>>> from unidecode import unidecode
>>> unidecode("Gestión")
'Gestion'

Unfortunately, this isn't very well documented. Are you interested in contributing a documentation update to fix issue #348?