I did a quick "grep" survey of .ui files installed on my own
system.  I see 71 instances of ... and 28 instances of U+2026.
I'm inclined to stick with ... (unless you really like the
ellipsis character for some reason).

John Darrington <[email protected]> writes:

> There is a Unicode character for an ellipsis.  I wonder if
> we ought to use that instead of three dots.
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:36:45PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines say:
>      
>          Label the menu item with a trailing ellipsis ("...") only if
>          the command requires further input from the user before it
>          can be performed. Do not add an ellipsis to items that only
>          present a confirmation dialog (such as Delete), or that do
>          not require further input (such as Properties, Preferences or
>          About).
>      
>      Most PSPPIRE menu items fit this description, so they should have
>      trailing ellipses, which this commit adds.

-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org

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