comma ellipses

Garth Wallace via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sun Oct 6 22:21:06 CDT 2019


It’s deliberately incorrect for humorous effect. It gets used, but making
it “official” would almost defeat the purpose.

On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 5:02 PM Asmus Freytag via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> On 10/6/2019 4:05 PM, Tex via Unicode wrote:
>
> Now that comma ellipses (,,,) are a thing (at least on social media) do we
> need a character proposal?
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>
>
> Asking for a friend,,, J
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> tex
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> I thought the main reason we ended up with the period (dot) one is because
> it was originally needed for CJK-style fixed grid layout purposes. But It
> could be wrong.
>
> What's the current status for 3-dot ellipsis. Does it get used? Do we have
> autocorrect for it? If so, that would argue that implementers have settled
> and any derivative usage (comma) should be kept compatible.
>
>
> A./
>
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