Use ellipsis instead of three dots. props tjsingleton, jordie23, wojtek.szkutnik, DrewAPicture, SergeyBiryukov. see #8714.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@24207 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82

wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php

@@ -5422,7 +5422,7 @@ class wp_xmlrpc_server extends IXR_Server {
 
 				// prevent really long link text
 				if ( strlen($context[1]) > 100 )
-					$context[1] = substr($context[1], 0, 100) . '...';
+					$context[1] = substr($context[1], 0, 100) . '…';
 
 				$marker = '<wpcontext>'.$context[1].'</wpcontext>';    // set up our marker
 				$excerpt= str_replace($context[0], $marker, $excerpt); // swap out the link for our marker
@@ -5440,7 +5440,7 @@ class wp_xmlrpc_server extends IXR_Server {
 
 		$pagelinkedfrom = str_replace('&', '&amp;', $pagelinkedfrom);
 
-		$context = '[...] ' . esc_html( $excerpt ) . ' [...]';
+		$context = '[&#8230;] ' . esc_html( $excerpt ) . ' [&#8230;]';
 		$pagelinkedfrom = $wpdb->escape( $pagelinkedfrom );
 
 		$comment_post_ID = (int) $post_ID;

wp-includes/comment-template.php

@@ -393,8 +393,8 @@ function comment_date( $d = '', $comment_ID = 0 ) {
 /**
  * Retrieve the excerpt of the current comment.
  *
- * Will cut each word and only output the first 20 words with '...' at the end.
- * If the word count is less than 20, then no truncating is done and no '...'
+ * Will cut each word and only output the first 20 words with '…' at the end.
+ * If the word count is less than 20, then no truncating is done and no '…'
  * will appear.
  *
  * @since 1.5.0
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ function get_comment_excerpt( $comment_ID = 0 ) {
 	for ($i=0; $i<$k; $i++) {
 		$excerpt .= $blah[$i] . ' ';
 	}
-	$excerpt .= ($use_dotdotdot) ? '...' : '';
+	$excerpt .= ($use_dotdotdot) ? '&hellip;' : '';
 	return apply_filters('get_comment_excerpt', $excerpt);
 }
 

wp-includes/comment.php

@@ -1753,7 +1753,7 @@ function do_trackbacks($post_id) {
 	else
 		$excerpt = apply_filters('the_excerpt', $post->post_excerpt);
 	$excerpt = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $excerpt);
-	$excerpt = wp_html_excerpt($excerpt, 252) . '...';
+	$excerpt = wp_html_excerpt($excerpt, 252) . '…';
 
 	$post_title = apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title, $post->ID);
 	$post_title = strip_tags($post_title);

wp-includes/formatting.php

@@ -2161,11 +2161,11 @@ function human_time_diff( $from, $to = '' ) {
  * Generates an excerpt from the content, if needed.
  *
  * The excerpt word amount will be 55 words and if the amount is greater than
- * that, then the string ' [...]' will be appended to the excerpt. If the string
+ * that, then the string ' […]' will be appended to the excerpt. If the string
  * is less than 55 words, then the content will be returned as is.
  *
  * The 55 word limit can be modified by plugins/themes using the excerpt_length filter
- * The ' [...]' string can be modified by plugins/themes using the excerpt_more filter
+ * The ' […]' string can be modified by plugins/themes using the excerpt_more filter
  *
  * @since 1.5.0
  *
@@ -2182,7 +2182,7 @@ function wp_trim_excerpt($text = '') {
 		$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
 		$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
 		$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);
-		$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...]');
+		$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[…]');
 		$text = wp_trim_words( $text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
 	}
 	return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt);

wp-includes/post-formats.php

@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ function get_the_remaining_content( $more_link_text = null, $strip_teaser = fals
 	$post = get_post();
 
 	if ( null === $more_link_text )
-		$more_link_text = __( '(more...)' );
+		$more_link_text = __( '(more…)' );
 
 	$output = '';
 	$has_teaser = false;

wp-includes/post-template.php

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ function get_the_content( $more_link_text = null, $strip_teaser = false ) {
 	$post = get_post();
 
 	if ( null === $more_link_text )
-		$more_link_text = __( '(more...)' );
+		$more_link_text = __( '(more…)' );
 
 	$output = '';
 	$has_teaser = false;

wp-includes/post.php

@@ -3339,7 +3339,7 @@ function trackback_url_list($tb_list, $post_id) {
 		$excerpt = strip_tags($post_excerpt ? $post_excerpt : $post_content);
 
 		if (strlen($excerpt) > 255) {
-			$excerpt = substr($excerpt,0,252) . '...';
+			$excerpt = substr($excerpt,0,252) . '…';
 		}
 
 		$trackback_urls = explode(',', $tb_list);