Re: Use of UTF-8 triple points ? instead of "..."
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
> As someone using and translating to a language where some special
> characters are available only in UTF-8[1] I'd recommend to avoid it if
> possible. It's not enough to have the correct locale, the font used to
> display it has to contain that character too.
And sadly even some hardware on sale now that runs debian has a system
font without it. But more to the point, why do it? Just to save two
characters and maybe one byte?
(And as I was just reminded by a bounced email, mail-mode in the Emacs
in debian stable doesn't handle UTF-8 in email headers correctly...)
Thanks
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