Ignoring accents in SQL Server using LINQ to SQL

Question

How can I ignore accents (like ´, `, ~) in queries made to a SQL Server database using LINQ to SQL?

UPDATE:

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Answer 1

See the following answer:

LINQ Where Ignore Accentuation and Case

Basically you need to alter the field type in SQL Server, e.g.

ALTER TABLE People ALTER COLUMN Name [varchar](100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI

There does not seem to be a way to do this using LINQ, apart from calling a custom method to remove diacritics (which would not be performant).