Always use unicode ellipsis when ellipsizing

[elogind.git] / src / basic / string-util.c

diff --git a/src/basic/string-util.c b/src/basic/string-util.c
index 5d4510e1b3bc457103da44e9128cc240588fdc53..dc7de5dab82538e4cfd969956d3eecb926845bb7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/basic/string-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/string-util.c
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static char *ascii_ellipsize_mem(const char *s, size_t old_length, size_t new_le
         if (old_length <= 3 || old_length <= new_length)
                 return strndup(s, old_length);
 
-        r = new0(char, new_length+1);
+        r = new0(char, new_length+3);
         if (!r)
                 return NULL;
 
@@ -453,12 +453,12 @@ static char *ascii_ellipsize_mem(const char *s, size_t old_length, size_t new_le
                 x = new_length - 3;
 
         memcpy(r, s, x);
-        r[x] = '.';
-        r[x+1] = '.';
-        r[x+2] = '.';
+        r[x] = 0xe2; /* tri-dot ellipsis: … */
+        r[x+1] = 0x80;
+        r[x+2] = 0xa6;
         memcpy(r + x + 3,
-               s + old_length - (new_length - x - 3),
-               new_length - x - 3);
+               s + old_length - (new_length - x - 1),
+               new_length - x - 1);
 
         return r;
 }