diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index ba65f7f40f..13d0e47d97 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -112,8 +112,6 @@ Features:
 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
   from the SIGBUS handler
 
-* when using UTF8, ellipsize with "…" rather than "...", so that we can show more contents before truncating
-
 * move specifier expansion from service_spawn() into load-fragment.c
 
 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
diff --git a/src/basic/string-util.c b/src/basic/string-util.c
index 5d4510e1b3..dc7de5dab8 100644
--- a/src/basic/string-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/string-util.c
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static char *ascii_ellipsize_mem(const char *s, size_t old_length, size_t new_le
         if (old_length <= 3 || old_length <= new_length)
                 return strndup(s, old_length);
 
-        r = new0(char, new_length+1);
+        r = new0(char, new_length+3);
         if (!r)
                 return NULL;
 
@@ -453,12 +453,12 @@ static char *ascii_ellipsize_mem(const char *s, size_t old_length, size_t new_le
                 x = new_length - 3;
 
         memcpy(r, s, x);
-        r[x] = '.';
-        r[x+1] = '.';
-        r[x+2] = '.';
+        r[x] = 0xe2; /* tri-dot ellipsis: … */
+        r[x+1] = 0x80;
+        r[x+2] = 0xa6;
         memcpy(r + x + 3,
-               s + old_length - (new_length - x - 3),
-               new_length - x - 3);
+               s + old_length - (new_length - x - 1),
+               new_length - x - 1);
 
         return r;
 }