Titles with "...", whats best? "Horizontal Ellipsis" or 3 periods?

[BaronKrause]

For book titles that have 3 periods usually at the end (and sometimes at the start) whats the prefered method, 3 periods like "..." or a Horizontal Ellipsis "…" (that's a single character).

Most search programs will not differentiate between the 2 (Calibre even will even make the file names the same regardless adding a ".__" for both) but I just figured I would find out if there was a consensus on a best practice for handling these.

[BetterRed]

In titles I would always use three dots, mainly 'cause it's easier to type and use in a search term - not only in calibre but most other places too.

BR

[theducks]

3 Periods
Titles should be ASCII friendly
ellipses are UTF8

[BaronKrause]

Originally Posted by theducks

3 Periods
Titles should be ASCII friendly
ellipses are UTF8

Excellent thanks both of you!

Now does this mean utf8 should be avoided at all costs or you should just avoid it if an ASCII alternative is available? Some titles for content I have use a utf8 star or heart (as you can guess, it's not published books, but comic and web novel type content). Should they simply be omitted?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by theducks

3 Periods
Titles should be ASCII friendly
ellipses are UTF8

If we're talking about the metadata, and not the filename, why? Metadata is stored as Unicode, isn't it, not ASCII?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BaronKrause

Excellent thanks both of you!

Now does this mean utf8 should be avoided at all costs or you should just avoid it if an ASCII alternative is available? Some titles for content I have use a utf8 star or heart (as you can guess, it's not published books, but comic and web novel type content). Should they simply be omitted?

From common sense castle

If the unicode characters are sucked up from a metadata download site or they came with the embedded metadata I'd leave them as is, but I wouldn't bother inserting them via the keyboard via cut and paste from BabelMap, or with a global gadget like AHK or Phrase Express.

if you have the book/comic in epub or azw3, maybe you could do it in the editor, assuming its insert special character feature works on the opf file. And then you would then use the get metadata from format feature in MDE. But I have no idea if that would actually work.

BR

[BaronKrause]

I'm not able to use any auto metadata tools for much of the content in my catalogue. I have allot of translated Japanese light novels, so I'm just entering in the basic info manually in Calibre. More of those titles then you would expect have special characters like ☆, ♡ and "..." in the name.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

From common sense castle

If the unicode characters are sucked up from a metadata download site or they came with the embedded metadata I'd leave them as is, but I wouldn't bother inserting them via the keyboard via cut and paste from BabelMap, or with a global gadget like AHK or Phrase Express.

If I'm typing titles in, then sure, that makes sense. Much of my Calibre library consists of Egyptology journal articles with titles such as (picking a random example) "The Oath sḏfȝ-tryt in Papyrus Lee, 1, 1". It would be extremely difficult to re-type such titles as ASCII, and would seem to offer little or no benefit.