The alpha productions in the BNF is based on a deprecated section of the XML specification ...
The current alpha, digit, extendedDigit, ideographic, chmbiningChar, externder productions are based on an soon-to-be-deprecated section of the XML specification (https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#CharClasses). The first question is whether the XML character space is the correct one to use. Assuming it is then we should base these productions on https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets and https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-common-syn.
Meeting 2022-06-20: We will use the Name rule from https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-common-syn for unquoted identifiers. Our current alpha rule will be changed to the range from the XML Char rule in https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets except for the digit characters (which have their own rule in CQL2). @pvretano is preparing the PR.