What's the proper technical term for "high ascii" characters?

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Published on 2009-10-02T17:12:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 5:51 UTC
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What is the technically correct way of referring to "high ascii" or "extended ascii" characters? I don't just mean the range of 128-255, but any character beyond the 0-127 scope.

Often they're called diacritics, accented letters, sometimes casually referred to as "national" or non-English characters, but these names are either imprecise or they cover only a subset of the possible characters.

What correct, precise term that will programmers immediately recognize? And what would be the best English term to use when speaking to a non-technical audience?

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