On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:45:24 +0200 (CEST), Francois Gouget wrote:
So should we go with the flow and switch to using ellipsis characters or should we stick with three dots?
In most Japanese fonts, ellipsis character (U+2026) is designed like midline horizontal ellipsis (U+22EF). For instance, please look at 0x8163 in codepage 932 chart [1]. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/gg638593
If we use ellipsis character (U+2026), Japanese user gets different impression from the character. Therefore, I prefer "three dots" style.
The reason of this behaviour is Japanese Industrial Standard, JIS X 0208. JIS X 0208 defines 3-dot leader character. As its example glyph is three middle dots, most font vendors designed the glyph like that. In Unicode conversion, the character is mapped into U+2026. Thus, its glyph is not like ellipsis.
Regards, Akihiro Sagawa