On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 14:22 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > 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? I would say it is a valuable change (since it’s one which is definitely noticeable). However, we should come up with some fairly strict rules about when to use double- and single-quotes before starting to make any changes — or we’ll just end up with inconsistency across the desktop. Philip
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