--- "Mark E. Shoulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/15/03 09:43, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> 
> > Is this like baseball scoreboards showing the third consecutive 
> > strikeout symbol (which is a K) reversed?  Is that to avoid "KKK"
> or 
> > is it for another reason? 

Traditionally in baseball scorekeeping, a reversed K denotes a
strikeout where the third strike was called by the umpire, rather than
a swing and a miss.


> Which of course begs the question of whether we should encode a
> "LATIN 
> CAPITAL REVERSED K" character.
> 
> ~mark

I've never seen it used in plain text. At least one source[1] suggests
"Kc" as an alternative to the reversed K for "strikeout, called".

-ATL


[1] http://www.baseballscorecard.com/scoring.htm

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