In Python & Pandas there is an easy way to convert special characters to plain latin characters like below.
import pandas as pd
from unidecode import unidecode
df = pd.Series(['Ässät', 'Kärpät', 'Łódź'])
df.apply(unidecode)
This gives me
Out[7]:
0 Assat
1 Karpat
2 Lodz
Is there any easy way to do the same in MySQL? I have only seen fairly complicated ways so far.