Michael, > As a typesetter on Mac OS X, I see no reason to abandon the use of > the three-dotted horizontal ellipsis character, Ken.
Nor do I. It is fine for ellipses... And it was encoded for that. But in encodings which don't have an ellipsis character, it is roughly comparable to a sequence of three periods, as above. And for sure you wouldn't want to create leader lines by using a sequence of ellipses. --Ken