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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017-12-15 11:01, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote:
> 
>> I was also considering the ellipsis '...' but in classical ASCII, they
>> are three characters wide, that's why I ended up with .., + or * to keep
>> it short.
> 
> ... and the problem with 3 chars is?

It takes more space in the schematics.

>> But since we arrived in Unicode, this can be solved by using the
>> horizontal ellipsis single character: U+2026 '…' or in our case the
>> midline horizontal ellipsis U+22EF '⋯'.
> 
> Please do _not_ use Unicode for this -please-

What are the issues you expect?
Since these symbols are only used on display, I would not mind using them.


Regards,

Clemens