What is the best way to filter by the first character?

Question

Django

Good day, gentlemen. Please advise how best to implement filtering by the first letter.
The essence of the problem: there is an alphabet, and there is a table in which definitions are written. When you click on a letter of the alphabet, definitions that begin with that letter are displayed.
I think to solve this problem in this way. Attach a URL to each letter, for example, when you click on the letter "A", a link like: was formed http://example.com/a/,
in urls.py it will be:

url(r'^(?P<symbol>[а-я]{1})/$', TestView.as_view(), name='test'),

and then catch this symbol in the view and do Test.objects.filter(name__startswith='symbol').
Maybe someone knows how to do it better? Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It's ok , just check how junga will react to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode