- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:18:43 -0400
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: "Brad Kemper" <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>, "Joeri Sebrechts" <joeri@sebrechts.net>, www-style@w3.org
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) > > http://www.w3.org/International/ > http://rishida.net/ > > > >> -----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...)
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