diff --git a/lisp/international/mule-util.el b/lisp/international/mule-util.el
index c369374022d..8f316332249 100644
--- a/lisp/international/mule-util.el
+++ b/lisp/international/mule-util.el
@@ -58,10 +58,7 @@ needs to be called on every use of `truncate-string-to-width' to
 decide whether the selected frame can display that Unicode character."
   (cond
    (truncate-string-ellipsis)
-   ;; This uses the character's codepoint instead of the character
-   ;; itself to avoid decoding problems when loading this file.
-   ;; FIXME.
-   ((char-displayable-p ?\u2026) "\u2026")
+   ((char-displayable-p ?…) "…")
    ("...")))
 
 ;;;###autoload