Force WordPress search respect diacritics

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Hello.

Thank you.
Isn’t there really any easier way to change this WordPress behavior? I am creating a simple dictionary, I finished my work and the only last thing I noticed is just this issue. I read something about collate and tried some hooks but nothing works.

Many thanks.

Radan

Here is the working code. For anybody else, I guess you should change ‘utf8mb4_czech_ci’ according to your language.

function wpdocs_custom_posts_search( $search, $wp_query ) {
    global $wpdb;
 
    if ( empty( $search ) )
        return $search;
 
    $q = $wp_query->query_vars;
    $n = ! empty( $q['exact'] ) ? '' : '%';
 
    $search =
    $searchand = '';
 
    foreach ( (array) $q['search_terms'] as $term ) {
        $term = esc_sql( $wpdb->esc_like( $term ) );
        $like = $n . $term . $n;
        $search .= "{$searchand}CONVERT({$wpdb->posts}.post_title USING utf8mb4) COLLATE utf8mb4_czech_ci LIKE '{$like}'";
        $searchand = ' AND ';
    }
 
    if ( ! empty( $search ) ) {
        $search = " AND ({$search}) ";
        if ( ! is_user_logged_in() )
            $search .= " AND ({$wpdb->posts}.post_password = '') ";
    }
 
    return $search;
}
add_filter( 'posts_search', 'wpdocs_custom_posts_search', 500, 2 );

Resolved.