search with \\ escape in laravel eloquent in mysql

escape_eloquent.php

<?php

$name = "Léo";

$name = json_encode($name);

if (strpos($name, '\\u00') !== false) {
    //the first bar is the escape and the second is the real bar
    //so we have one bar in search
    //and in replace 8 bars, because laravel will scape this bars again and we need 4 to select works in mysql :)
    $name = str_replace('\\', '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\', $name);
}
$name = str_replace('"', '', $name);

$name = "%".$name."%";

$candidate = Candidate::query()->whereRaw(" name like '". $name . "'");

var_dump($candidate->toSql(), $candidate->get()->toArray());