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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 15/12/2017 à 12:28, Jeff Young a écrit :
> Yeah, definitely stay away from anything non-ASCII in the syntax, but the narrower ellipsis character should be fine for display….

... but not in plot files, as pdf files have a searchable text.
Because Kicad is a internationalized tool, we avoid any non ASCII7 char in "system" strings.

> 
>> On 15 Dec 2017, at 10:54, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Marco Ciampa


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