are there unicode guidelines on how to encode a single‐ or double‐dot ellipsis
i stand corrected; it looks like U+2024 ․ ONE DOT LEADER and U+2025 ‥ TWO DOT LEADER are indeed intended for this purpose; i had assumed they were technical characters
U+2026 … HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS is literally just “three dot leader” they just gave it a different name for some reason (western bias)
@Lady single dot ellipsis.
@Satsuma in japanese the period character is ‹ 。 ›, so they can and do use ordinary periods as single dot ellipses
@Lady interesting
@Satsuma screenshots from link’s awakening:
1. note the open square at the end of the first line; this is a full stop
2. single‐dot ellipsis
@Lady does Japanese have commas
@Satsuma yes, ‹ 、 ›
in chinese, the above comma is only used for enumeration of items in a list, and ‹ ， › is used for commas e.g. between phrases. japanese writing i think can feature both but i don’t think there are as firm of rules in place.
@Satsuma this is actually a bit unconventional for two reasons: (1) japanese ellipses don’t typically use fullwidth periods like that, and (2) typically they are centred on the line rather than placed on the baseline
my guess is that it’s “just use periods” but we should also acknowledge that unicode does not have particularly good ellipsis guidelines presently