The extent of repetition in itself might serve as an additional contextualization or paralinguistic cue, to "extend the lexical meaning of the words, add character to the sentences, and allow fine-tuning and personalisation of the message". Computer representations
In computing, several ellipsis characters have been codified, depending on the system used. In the Unicode standard, there are the following characters:

Unicode recognizes a series of three period characters (U+002E) as compatibility equivalent (though not canonical) to the horizontal ellipsis character.In HTML, the horizontal ellipsis character may be represented by the entity reference &hellip; (since HTML 4.0), and the vertical ellipsis character by the entity reference &vellip; (since HTML 5.0). Alternatively, in HTML, XML, and SGML, a numeric character reference such as &#x2026; or &#8230; can be used. In the TeX typesetting system, the following types of ellipsis are available:

In LaTeX, note that the reverse orientation of \ddots can be achieved with \reflectbox provided by the graphicx package: \reflectbox{\ddots} yields . With the amsmath package from AMS-LaTeX, more specific ellipses are provided for math mode. The horizontal ellipsis character also appears in the following older character maps:

in Windows-1250—Windows-1258 and in IBM/MS-DOS Code page 874, at code 85 (hexadecimal)
in Mac-Roman, Mac-CentEuro and several other Macintosh encodings, at code C9 (hexadecimal)
in Ventura International encoding at code C1 (hexadecimal)Note that ISO/IEC 8859 encoding series provides no code point for ellipsis.
In 2012, crofelemer completed a Phase III trial, and it was approved in December 2012 by the FDA for the indication "symptomatic relief of non-infectious diarrhea in patients with HIV/AIDS on anti-retroviral therapy".The drug substance is manufactured by Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, and is manufactured as 125 mg delayed-release tablets by Patheon Pharmaceuticals Inc. for Napo Pharmaceuticals. References
External links
"Crofelemer". Drug Information Portal. U.S. National Library of Medicine.