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A metacharacter is a single character that is used in place of another character or set of characters. Thus by using a metacharacter one can save keystrokes, and eliminate more complex sets.

URLs:

ISO Online
International Organization for Standardization has codified standards, including those for metacharacters.

W3E References:

DTD
ISO Latin-1
SGML
TeX

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