Accent insensitive search query in MySQL

Question

Is there any way to make search query accent insensitive?

the column\'s and table\'s collation are utf8_polish_ci and I don\'t want to change them.

example w

Answer 1

This wont work in extreme circumstances, but try to change the column collation to UFT8 utf8_unicode_ci. Then accented characters will be equal to their non-accented counterparts.