Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#12170 closed (wontfix)

Use ellipsis instead of three periods in truncatewords

Reported by: stopsatgreen Owned by: nobody
Component: Template system Version: 1.1
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Instead of using three periods:

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The truncatewords & truncatewords_html filters should use an ellipsis (unicode 2026):


Change History (2)

comment:1 by anonymous, 15 years ago

Ideally - it shouldn't use neither 3 dots nor ellipsis. It's up to user whether to use 3 dots, 5 dots, ellipsis or none of them.

comment:2 by Russell Keith-Magee, 15 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

As noted by the anonymous commenter, the decision to use the unicode character should be up the user. However, I can't see a way to accommodate user choice that is acceptable as API (an option arg or a setting are the only options I can think of, and I don't like either). Closing wontfix.

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