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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, definitely stay away from anything non-ASCII in the syntax, but the narrower ellipsis character should be fine for display….

> On 15 Dec 2017, at 10:54, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:38:00AM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> IMHO one more char (if not using Unicode...) is worth for being confusion proof...
> 
>>>> 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.
> 
> Ok right, I was wrong, forget it. It's not a big issue anyway...
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