MySQL REGEXP query - accent insensitive search

Question

I\'m looking to query a database of wine names, many of which contain accents (but not in a uniform way, and so similar wines may be entered with or without accents)

Answer 1

Because REGEXP and RLIKE are byte oriented, have you tried:

SELECT 'Faugères' REGEXP 'Faug(e|è|ê|é|ë)r(e|è|ê|é|ë)s';

This says one of these has to be in the expression. Notice that I haven't used the plus(+) because that means ONE OR MORE. Since you only want one you should not use the plus.