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 <html><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>GB/T 15834 4.11</title></head> <!-- Using 'Sans Serif' forces to that fontconfig magic name --> <!-- Excerpt from http://git.io/v4xyh, GB/T 15834:2011 General Rules for punctuation --> <body style="font-family: 'Sans Serif',sans-serif !important;"> <h1>4.11 省略号</h1> 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“……”。 <h2>4.11.3 基本用法</h2><ul> <li><strong>表示引文的省略</strong>：我们齐声朗诵起来：“……俱佳矣，数风流 人物，还看今朝”</li> <li><strong>表示列举或重复词语的省略</strong>：他气得连声说：“好，好……算 我没说。”</li> </ul></body></html> ``` 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 Program killed by SIGINT. -- Regards, Arthur2e5
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