Diacritical

Many languages use letters with diacritical signs.

In Portuguese, every word stressed on the antepenultimate syllable has a diacritical mark.

The Vietnamese alphabet uses diacritical marks to produce an accurate transcription for tones despite the limitations of the Latin alphabet.

The reduplicated forms and the fineness of the diacritical strokes, render his book troublesome to the reader

California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).

This is often the case when diacriticals are written at the end of the word - the last character ends, but there is still some ink in the original writing order that should have been used up in the course of processing the various t's, i's, and apostrophes in the body of the word.