From: Alex LeDonne (aledonne@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 12:07:25 EST
--- "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org> 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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