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

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
>
> Is this really the right thing to do. Even the Microsoft page
> uses the rather wishy-washy "Consider using the ratio symbol",
> as if they're not quite sure this is a good idea. It does look
> nicer, but it's semantically wrong. A time is not a ratio. How
> does Orca read it?

I don't really have an answer to the philosophical question of what a
'ratio' really is and whether
9-colon-49 is any more correct than 9-ratio-49 when it comes to
representing time.

But I can say that Orca reads the one like the other: "nine fortynine".