A diacritical is a general term for the accents or other glyphs
that are used in many other languages in combination with what
English speaking people would consider a 'character'. French 
for example has acute e, grave e (the accent is angled in 
different directions), and the cedilla which looks like a 
c with a very small 5 underneath it. 

(My apologies to all regarding spelling or implications in 
French. It's been twenty years, so mine is extremely rusty.)

Sara Mitchell
Chuck White wrote:

[snip]
 
> A stupid question, perhaps, but what's a diactrical? I looked it up in a
> couple of online computer-term dictionaries, but couldn't find it.  Thanks
> 
> -chuck white
>


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