Wine uses three dots (...) rather than the Unicode ellipsis character (…) except in the Czech and Taiwanese translations that use the Unicode ellipsis character.
I think we should be consistent but the question is which to use.
I looked at the Windows interface guidelines and they don't have anything to say on this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa974176.aspx#punctu... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511453.aspx#ellips...
Looking at what other platforms do, the Apple interface guidelines recommend using the Unicode ellipsis character saying assistive technologies need it. The GNOME and KDE guidelines don't have an official position but seem to use the Unicode character anyway:
http://simos.info/blog/archives/17
So should we go with the flow and switch to using ellipsis characters or should we stick with three dots?