Re: Using the Unicode ellipsis =?UTF-8?Q?=28=E2=80=A6=29?= instead of three periods



On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
> represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
> 
> This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1] and Apple [2].
> 
> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj553415.aspx#2._Exploit_the_power_of_Unicode
> [2] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/TextStyle/TextStyle.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000365-TPXREF126

GTK+ has just switched to using Unicode ellipses[1], and there’s a
tracker bug[2] open for the rest of the desktop. It would be great to
get some momentum behind this.

Philip

[1]: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk
+/commit/?id=ceb866dfe6be6d88b8f83a3cbdb8a2a688419c82
[2]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621639

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