On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 10:01 +0100, Stefan Sauer wrote: > On 12/04/2012 01:09 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to > > represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…). > > > > This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1] and Apple [2]. > > > > [1] > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj553415.aspx#2._Exploit_the_power_of_Unicode > > [2] > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/TextStyle/TextStyle.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000365-TPXREF126 > > > > On the other hand, I think it's less clear whether we should change > > command line output as the single Unicode ellipsis takes up > > significantly less space than three periods in a monospace font. > > It would be awesome to have a wiki page with the agreed and proposed > uni-code character usage. Once there are enough agreed use-cases (e.g. > the use of ellipsis in menus), it could be turned into a gnome goal. > Ideally the agreed uni-code characters would make it into a gnome hig > chapter about typography.
I’ve created https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/UnicodeUsage which I think covers everything discussed in this thread so far. Please feel free to add further suggestions to it, or move things from the ‘discussion’ to the ‘agreed’ list. Philip
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