[San-Diego-pm] accents

[Joel Fentin]

I need to see if what the Spanish language operator enters is contained 
in a long hunk of text. Something like this:
if($X =~ /$Y/){[Do something]}

The operator might enter josé, JOSÉ, or jose. He might enter niño, NIÑO, 
or nino.

An i modifier to m// will take care of case. Is there any fell swoop way 
of taking care of accents?
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