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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: diagnostics: prefer "…" to "..." if the locale supports it |
Date: | Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:14:54 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.0 |
diagnostics: prefer "…" to "..." if the locale supports it
Is this really a win? I normally used fixed-width fonts, and on my platform a string like "ABC…DEF" is all-too-easily confused with "ABC_DEF" if there are no underscores in the neighborhood. (I am using Fedora 30 with default fonts.)
For what it's worth, the Wikipedia manual of style <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Ellipses> says, "Wikipedia's style for an ellipsis is three unspaced dots (...); do not use the precomposed ellipsis character (…) or three dots separated by spaces (. . .)." Although Bison is not bound by any such style guide, I've found the Wikipedia style manual to be a good source for advice when trying to write clear documentation that is readable on the web.
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