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

You could try SOUNDEX:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_soundex

This compares two string by how they sound. But this obviously delivers many more results.