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

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le lundi 03 décembre 2012 à 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha a écrit :
> 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
> 
> On the other hand, I think it's less clear whether we should change
> command line output as the single Unicode ellipsis takes up
> significantly less space than three periods in a monospace font.
The Microsoft link recommends using curly quotes instead of straight
ones too. Do you think this is a valuable change too?


Regards