Re: Origin of Ellipsis (was: RE: Empty set)

From: CE Whitehead <cewcathar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:50:19 -0400

>> U+2026 is useful for microblogs when one is looking to save characters

> Not if the microblog is in UTF-8, as almost all are.

Why not just type:
. . .
(I suppose this fails too as now the ellipsis can break at line breaks).
(In html code it works of course:
<pre>
&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;.
</pre>
Note that the pre tags are just to prevent the nbsp s from getting converted to spaces.)

Best,

--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar_at_hotmail.com
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