The Default Alphabet

django-alphafilter will always show the letters that are filterable based on data in the model, regardless of the language or encoding. It also displays, by default, the ASCII alphabet and digits as disabled characters.

Changing the Default Alphabet

The configuration setting DEFAULT_ALPHABET can be a string, tuple, list or callable that returns a string, list or tuple.

If you only what the ASCII characters, no digits:

DEFAULT_ALPHABET = u'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

For the German alphabet:

DEFAULT_ALPHABET = u'0123456789A\xc4BCDEFGHIJKLMNO\xd6PQRS\xdfTU\xdcVWXYZ'

For the Icelandic alphabet:

DEFAULT_ALPHABET = u'0123456789A\xc1BD\xd0E\xc9FGHI\xcdJKLMNO\xd3PRSTU\xdaVXY\xdd\xde\xd6'

To show nothing except the characters in the data:

DEFAULT_ALPHABET = u''

Add DEFAULT_ALPHABET to the project’s settings.py to for a global change.

Add a DEFAULT_ALPHABET attribute on your model to change it on a model-by-model basis.