Address how `...` appears to speakers of non-alphabetic, non-occidental languages

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Address how `...` appears to speakers of non-alphabetic, non-occidental languages #19

Open dkg opened 5 years ago

dkg commented 5 years ago

@juga0 points out in #14 that we don't actualy know whether an ellipsis really language-agnostic. What about non-western languages? what about non-alphabetic languages?

My suspicion is that if users of those languages are using e-mail they are at least exposed to US ASCII at some level, but i have no data to back that up. and i also don't know anything about the cultural implications of the ellipsis (outside of western writing), broadly speaking.

hpk42 commented 5 years ago

we don't claim the elipsis "solves" localization, just that it mitigates it. Also we are talking about the transitional phase -- compliant apps will not expose "..." to the user at all.