RE: How universal is a check mark?

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, James Turley wrote:

> My kids go to Japanese school here in Silicon
> Valley. Their marked up homework comes home with
> zeros for "correct" and check marks for "incorrect".

I had some similiar problems when I went to elementary school here in
Iran. But the problem was with literacy, etc. Some teachers thought that
they may use any sign for anything they want. The next-year teacher may
use other marks. 

--roozbeh