Can the French and Spanish special chars be held in a varchar?

Question

French and Spanish have special chars in them that are not used in normal English (accented vowels and such).

Are those chars supported in a varchar? Or do I need a nva

Answer 1

I'm not sure but one of these collations may fit both Spanish and French, this would have to be researched though.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-charsets.html