national characters

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
national characters

   <character> {Characters} with accents and other diacritical
   marks that are used in certain written languages (that are
   based on the Roman alphabet) but not in others, particularly
   not in English.  A standard list is {ISO} {Latin 1}.

   (1996-06-24)
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