>> How it looks ('ugly') is entirely determined by the font though. It
>> sounds like you are trying to work around a font problem with a
>> system-wide string change. I don't think that is the best strategy.
Well, it's not a strategy. It's like people placing cactus next to
computers to absorb 'radiation' -- they simply believe in that.
> Yes, it is a workaround, while not due to font itself only, and is
> also some caused by font config and toolkit etc.
Please, open up a web browser in Fedora/OpenSuSE/Archlinux/Ubuntu, and
display the following HTML segment:
```HTML
GB/T 15834 4.11
4.11 省略号
标号的一种，表示语段中某些内容的省略及意义的断续等。省略号的形式是“……”。
4.11.3 基本用法
表示引文的省略：我们齐声朗诵起来：“……俱佳矣，数风流
人物，还看今朝”
表示列举或重复词语的省略：他气得连声说：“好，好……算
我没说。”
```
You can replace those `…' with `...', and then have a screenshot, and
post it to some imagebin so people know how ‘beautiful’ your workarounds
are. Please, use things that are as new as GNOME 3.
And still my old point -- this is not the problem **you** should try to
solve or (over-)work around. I know you tried to go good (everyone tries
to), so did medieval doctors. The knowledge you have on the platform you
use is just too old.
Well, I think I should use another analog here, since at least it worked
in the old dark ages, it's just useless now. Uh, say, avoiding pigs kept
Muslims from a major source of Swine influenza but now people have
better cures. (Well, this is still not a nice analog, since avoiding
pigs always worked, and your method actually worsens things on newer fonts…)
>> I think this should be solved
>> at the font level, by ensuring that a suitable ellipsis glyph is used
>> with Chinese.
Uh, please be aware that in English people also use `...' as some poor
man's ellipses, and no western fonts do similar things.
> I don't think replace characters will be a problem, in fact
> `translation' is just replace characters ;)
I don't think my terrible essay writing skills will be a problem, in
fact speaking and writing is just generating a linear expression of your
in-brain thoughts and all is well as long as people can get what you are
talking about.
I don't think my terrible courtesy will be a pro^C
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