On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:18:19 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> It wouldn't have occurred to me in a million years that they call
> accented letters "international characters."

I think I've seen more-surprising terms.

Using diacritical marks (?) for text decoration seems to represent the
level of linguistic understanding of the average middle-class native-born
US resident; sorry.

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