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Why not? Answering a bit late I know... but just in case someone else (like me), has the same question.
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/regular-expressions-overview/ "Comparisons are performed on the byte value, so characters that are treated as equivalent by a collation, but do not have the same byte-value, such as accented characters, could evaluate as unequal."