Re: Using the Unicode ellipsis (…) instead of three periods

[David King <amigadave amigadave com>]

On 2012-12-04 09:08, Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 22:01 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
> > 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 (…).
> >
> > We've been trying to do this on the Unity Indicators and I wrote a small
> > automake fragment to test for them.  It's a little bit hacky, but it
> > works and makes sure we don't regress.  I'd love for it to get used and
> > improved in other projects.
> >
> > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-session/trunk.13.04/view/head:/tests/Makefile.am.strings
>
> That looks really useful! Perhaps it could get included in gnome-common
> and then used in GNOME projects?

Looks good to me! Ted or Philip, can you file a bug against 
gnome-common? If there is to be a GNOME Goal for this (and the other 
checks, such as ‘spaces before ellipsis’) it would be good to get 
gnome-common to offer some assistance.

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