Stephan Stiller noted: > Maybe ... and the origin of the single-glyph ellipsis remains a mystery > to me.
As Philippe surmised, it is a compatibility character, originally included in the Unicode 1.0 repertoire for cross-mapping to existing legacy encodings: Code Page 932: 0x81 0x64 Code Page 949: 0xA1 0xA6 And there are others, as well. It corresponds to IBM GCGID SV520000. (or SV440000) --Ken
