Query escape rebuild to support non Latin character sets

Author: pdphilip

README.md

@@ -1468,9 +1468,3 @@ once and not update immediately or won't need to search for the record immediate
 ### Unsupported Eloquent methods
 
 `upsert()`, `distinct()`, `groupBy()`, `groupByRaw()`
-
-Acknowledgements
--------------
-
-This package was inspired by [jenssegers/laravel-mongodb](https://github.com/jenssegers/laravel-mongodb), a MongoDB
-implementation of Laravel's Eloquent ORM - Thank you!

src/DSL/QueryBuilder.php

@@ -247,19 +247,14 @@ private static function _parseParams($key, $value): string
 
     }
 
-    public static function _escape($string): string
+    public static function _escape($value): string
     {
-        //+ - = && || > < ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ /
-        $stripped = preg_replace('/\W/', '\\\\$0', $string);
-        
-        //Put the spaces back;
-        $stripped = str_replace('\ ', ' ', $stripped);
-        //Edge cases
-        $stripped = str_replace('\&\&', '\&&', $stripped);
-        $stripped = str_replace('\|\|', '\||', $stripped);
-        
-        return $stripped;
+        $specialChars = ['"', '\\', '~', '^'];
+        foreach ($specialChars as $char) {
+            $value = str_replace($char, "\\".$char, $value);
+        }
 
+        return $value;
     }
 
     private function _buildQuery($wheres): array