Re: text-overflow: ellipsis

Richard,

No, there is no Unicode character for the 6-dot ellipsis.
(There is no Unicode character for a dash that spans two CJK characters either.)

Cheers,
Ambrose

2008/8/4 Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>:
> Ambrose,
>
> Is there a Unicode character for the 6-dot ellipsis?  A quick search
> http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/?search=ellipsis didn't reveal one.
> Cheers,
> RI
>
> ============
> Richard Ishida
> Internationalization Lead
> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
>
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>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf
>> Of Ambrose Li
>> Sent: 02 August 2008 20:15
>> To: Brad Kemper
>> Cc: Joeri Sebrechts; www-style@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: text-overflow: ellipsis
>>
>>
>> 2008/8/2 Brad Kemper <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > If the convention does exist, shouldn't the appropriate character for
> the
>> > script in use be used? Thus a six dot ellipse (or six periods)
> automatically
>> > if using Chinese?
>>
>> Mostly, in computer user interfaces, the English ellipsis is
>> always used (I don't know why). I'd say the convention (of
>> actually using a 6-dot ellipsis) does not actually exist.
>>
>> So, by "one way or another" I meant (1) if some author feels
>> that a three-dot ellipsis is wrong because the Chinese ellipsis
>> should have 6 dots, he/she should have the option to use the
>> correct one, but (2) if the browser is required to always
>> default to the "correct" ellipsis I definitely won't mind :)
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> -ambrose
>>
>> The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by
>> idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the
>> abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
>
>



-- 
cheers,
-ambrose

The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by
idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the
abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)