Android Replace “…” with ellipsis character

Question

Since AVD tools 16 I\'m getting this warning:

Replace \"...\" with ellipsis character (..., …) ?

in my strings.xml

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Answer 1

If you're using Eclipse then you can always do the following:

• Right click on the warning
• Select "Quick Fix" (shortcut is Ctrl + 1 by default)
• Select "Replace with suggested characters"

This should replace your three dots with the proper Unicode character for ellipsis.

Just a note: The latest version of ADT (21.1) sometimes won't do the replace operation properly, but earlier versions had no problem doing this.

This is the character: …