Don't let them win. Stand proud with your "–" and your "—" and your "…" and your "×".

I dislike the ellipsis character on its own merits, honestly. Too scrunched-up, I think - ellipses in print are usually much wider, which looks better to me, and three periods approximates that more closely than the Unicode ellipsis.

In the words of Michael Bolton, "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."