Re: [evolution-patches] 41498: display elipses for overflowing text cells

[Mike Kestner <mkestner ximian com>]

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 18:36, Larry Ewing wrote:
> You might want to use ‪U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS `…` instead of three
> periods to save space in the display (and because it is the right thing
> to do).

Probably right.  Are we going to run into possible problems with font
support for that char though?

> Also isn't walking back by one char going to be really slow if the text
> is very long¹?

It's only stepping backward from the char at the end of the first broken
line.  Even in a fixed width font, it should be at most 4 iterations.

-- 
Mike Kestner <mkestner ximian com>