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According to this bug: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-7127
The Character Names only work for collating elements. There are also number of shortcuts to match particular preset character names. These are matched with the [.character.] pattern (inside a [] set).
Adding a note to that section would be helpful.