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authorDylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>2017-02-07 17:11:15 -0800
committerDylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>2017-08-22 12:25:03 -0700
commit112dd7cee458b867f0851c502d0c2d4a06c964de (patch)
treed812c34c4460a10535e279e7863e6822c83837f3 /alot/helper.py
parent9904d04f841c607c976cfc39571f167fd3d8d805 (diff)
alot/helper: print ellipsis in code
Since the file is encoded in utf-8 we can actually print the ellipsis. Most people can more readily read that than the raw utf-8 escape.
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-rw-r--r--alot/helper.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/alot/helper.py b/alot/helper.py
index 1c569a23..4cd01b77 100644
--- a/alot/helper.py
+++ b/alot/helper.py
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ def string_decode(string, enc='ascii'):
def shorten(string, maxlen):
"""shortens string if longer than maxlen, appending ellipsis"""
if 1 < maxlen < len(string):
- string = string[:maxlen - 1] + u'\u2026'
+ string = string[:maxlen - 1] + u'…'
return string[:maxlen]