Since there is no way to override SlugField and AutoSlugField in existing Oscar models, it was decided to pass `allow_unicode` parameter if this setting enable. This allows to achieve backwards compatibility with Django versions under 1.9, when this parameter was not supported yet. If parameter specified in the field expliticly - we do not override it, which allow to control slug fields individually in a normal way. For the reasons, explained above, standard SlugField was replaced with a custom one with the single slight change - control over `allow_unicode` parameter by the mentioned setting.