Dear all, I am using MySQL. One of my column database contains strings in non-English language, like "Nguyễn Văn", etc. (latin_swedish_ci collation) I use PHP search box to search for that string in database. If I enter exact string "Nguyễn Văn" into search box, I get the result, no problem. My problem is ....how if I don't want to type exact string (annoying for my members), but only "Nguyen Van", and I get the result ? Thank you very much for advice. Tim