How to type "…"?

xiaophil
 January 25, 2010 at 09:16 AM posted in I Have a Question

How can I type "…"? (As in the three little periods sandwiched together.) 

Thanks

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cqwuxioalong
 January 25, 2010 at 02:39 PM

must have 6 "."

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kimiik
 January 25, 2010 at 03:07 PM

Interestingly, Baidu refuses "......" as an equivalent of "……" :

http://www.baidu.com/s?bs=%A1%AD%A1%AD&f=8&wd=......

抱歉，您输入的内容“......”不在查询范围内。

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kimiik
 January 25, 2010 at 02:07 PM

Hi Simon,

Speaking of punctuation, we're touching a big advantage of Baidu over Google : handle a punctuation search.

http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%A1%AD%A1%AD

Vs

http://www.google.fr/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&fp=1351001971e6f01c

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simonpettersson
 January 25, 2010 at 11:07 AM

The regular ellipsis mark (…) is Alt+0133 on a Windows machine. However, that's a Western ellipsis and I'm not sure it's the same character in Chinese. It'd be a shame if it broke the monospaced beauty of Chinese by being a nonstandard width. Additionally, a real Chinese ellipsis should be six dots (just use it twice) and centered vertically, but this might just be a matter of font choice, I don't know.

I'm looking forward to diving into Chinese typography when my reading skills are better (the language is just so much more suited to it than Western languages are).

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xiaophil
 January 26, 2010 at 12:40 AM

Here goes: …… It seems to work when both using English and Chinese. Thanks Simon!