Ar 07:15 -0700 1999-10-04, scr�obh John Cowan:
>I have just learned that in recording the box scores in baseball
>(an international game despite its U.S. origins), the letter K is
>rendered in reverse when appearing in strings of length > 3,
>so as to avoid the (U.S.) political implications of "KKK".
>
>Does this usage count as plain text, or is it more like a font
>difference or dingbat?
It's a dingball, of course.
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