[gbog]

".." does not exist in French typography, we have the Points de suspension: "...", instead.

I'd like to add that it is wrong to think about commas, semi-colons, etc. in terms of duration of a pause in the speech. These signs articulate written sentences' syntax, and it sometimes relate to pauses when read aloud, but it is not a bijection. When analysing recordings, J. Drillon (Traité de la ponctuation française) showed that the correlation is really weak.

[pmjordan]

In fairness, the context of all this is ASCII characters, especially in the context of programming, not typography in human language. Various programming languages use ".." for expressing ranges. I think most (western) languages use the ellipsis "…" for the purposes you mention, which is actually typographically subtly different than 3 full stops.