**Features**: 1) Add unicode_slugify_function for advanced slugify handling; 2) Replace default slugify method with unicode_slugify_function in models; 3) Introduce python-slugify as a project dependency for Unicode slugification;

**Fixes**: 1) Remove redundant `slugify` import from `core/models.py`;

**Extra**: 1) Update `poetry.lock` and `pyproject.toml` to lock `python-slugify@8.0.4` and refine dependency definitions; 2) Improve readability of debug logging in `TweakedAutoSlugField`.

core/models.py

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ from django.http import Http404
 from django.utils import timezone
 from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes
 from django.utils.http import urlsafe_base64_encode
-from django.utils.text import slugify
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 from django_extensions.db.fields import AutoSlugField
 from django_prometheus.models import ExportModelOperationsMixin
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ from core.utils import (
     get_product_uuid_as_path,
     get_random_code,
 )
-from core.utils.db import TweakedAutoSlugField
+from core.utils.db import TweakedAutoSlugField, unicode_slugify_function
 from core.utils.lists import FAILED_STATUSES
 from core.validators import validate_category_image_dimensions
 from evibes.settings import CURRENCY_CODE
@@ -220,7 +219,7 @@ class Category(ExportModelOperationsMixin("category"), NiceModel, MPTTModel):
             "parent__name",
             "name",
         ),
-        slugify_function=slugify,
+        slugify_function=unicode_slugify_function,
         allow_unicode=True,
         unique=True,
         editable=False,
@@ -297,7 +296,7 @@ class Brand(ExportModelOperationsMixin("brand"), NiceModel):
         max_length=88,
         overwrite=True,
         null=True,
-        slugify_function=slugify,
+        slugify_function=unicode_slugify_function,
         verbose_name=_("brand slug"),
     )
     priority: int = PositiveIntegerField(  # type: ignore
@@ -376,7 +375,7 @@ class Product(ExportModelOperationsMixin("product"), NiceModel):
         overwrite=True,
         allow_unicode=True,
         unique=True,
-        slugify_function=slugify,
+        slugify_function=unicode_slugify_function,
         editable=False,
         null=True,
     )

core/utils/db.py

@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ from django.db.models import Model
 from django.db.models.constants import LOOKUP_SEP
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 from django_extensions.db.fields import AutoSlugField
+from slugify import slugify
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+
 def list_to_queryset(model: Model, data: list):
     if not isinstance(model, Model):
         raise ValueError(_(f"{model} must be model"))
@@ -17,6 +19,17 @@ def list_to_queryset(model: Model, data: list):
     return model.objects.filter(pk__in=pk_list)
 
 
+def unicode_slugify_function(content):
+    return slugify(
+        text=content,
+        allow_unicode=True,
+        max_length=88,
+        word_boundary=True,
+        save_order=True,
+        regex_pattern=r"/",
+    )
+
+
 class TweakedAutoSlugField(AutoSlugField):
     def get_slug_fields(self, model_instance, lookup_value):
         if callable(lookup_value):
@@ -25,7 +38,9 @@ class TweakedAutoSlugField(AutoSlugField):
         lookup_value_path = lookup_value.split(LOOKUP_SEP)
         attr = model_instance
 
-        logger.debug(f"get_slug_fields: lookup_value_path is {lookup_value_path} and attr is {attr}")
+        logger.debug(
+            f"get_slug_fields: lookup_value_path is {lookup_value_path} and attr is {attr}"
+        )
 
         for elem in lookup_value_path:
             try:

poetry.lock

@@ -4039,6 +4039,23 @@ files = [
 [package.extras]
 dev = ["backports.zoneinfo", "black", "build", "freezegun", "mdx_truly_sane_lists", "mike", "mkdocs", "mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin", "mkdocs-gen-files", "mkdocs-literate-nav", "mkdocs-material (>=8.5)", "mkdocstrings[python]", "msgspec", "mypy", "orjson", "pylint", "pytest", "tzdata", "validate-pyproject[all]"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "python-slugify"
+version = "8.0.4"
+description = "A Python slugify application that also handles Unicode"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "python-slugify-8.0.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:59202371d1d05b54a9e7720c5e038f928f45daaffe41dd10822f3907b937c856"},
+    {file = "python_slugify-8.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:276540b79961052b66b7d116620b36518847f52d5fd9e3a70164fc8c50faa6b8"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+text-unidecode = ">=1.3"
+
+[package.extras]
+unidecode = ["Unidecode (>=1.1.1)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pytz"
 version = "2025.2"
@@ -5166,4 +5183,4 @@ worker = ["celery", "celery-prometheus-exporter", "django-celery-beat", "django-
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.12,<3.13"
-content-hash = "2af805bf62515a47ea6f4649913482e4af8f8831a1236e1fa1400ba82dd9b4e0"
+content-hash = "659721d93224050ebe572b017a80d45826b288764427c24bd07fbd35b704fa48"

pyproject.toml

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ polib = "1.2.0"
 poetry-core = "2.1.3"
 PyJWT = "2.9.0"
 python = ">=3.12,<3.13"
+python-slugify = "8.0.4"
 psutil = "6.1.1"
 psycopg2 = "2.9.10"
 pydantic = "2.9.2"
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ ruff = "0.12.0"
 sentry-sdk = { extras = ["django", "celery", "opentelemetry", "redis"], version = "2.27.0" }
 six = "1.17.0"
 swapper = "1.4.0"
-yapf = "^0.43.0"
+yapf = "0.43.0"
 zeep = "4.3.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]