Illegal mix of collations for operation 'like' while searching with Ignited-Datatables

Question

I have successfully implemented Ignited-Datatables. However, while searching with database when typing \"non-latin\" characters like \"İ,ş,ğ,..\"

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Answer 1

I met a similar error when LIKE was applied to the DateTime column.
So now, instead of using simple date_col LIKE '2019%' I use CAST(date_col AS CHAR) LIKE '2019%'.

The solution was found on the official MySQL bugs website.