Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

["Stéphane Raimbault" <stephane raimbault gmail com>]

2007/2/21, Wouter Bolsterlee <uws+gnome xs4all nl>:
> 2007-02-19 klockan 09:21 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:
> > I found glade3 is using three-dot symbols "…" instead of thee dots
> > "...". If I recall correctly, we're all in favor of ascii symbols. Is
> > it okay using non-ascii symbols?
>
> I generally consider input to be in UTF-8, not ASCII. Gnome is fully
> Unicode-aware, so I don't think this poses real problems. But perhaps others
> more knowledgeable than I am can clarify. Danilo? Shaun?
>
>   mvrgr, Wouter


I don't see any interest to use this three-dot symbol. It's harder to
type and makes no differences on display (with Bitstream font).

Many translators don't know how to type this symbol or have a
convenient shortcut for.

I'm may be wrong, can you explain to me the goal?

Regards,
Stéphane

PS: I only saw this symbol in Glade-3