diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs
index b6dcc67858..49f2aeba1a 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs
@@ -256,9 +256,13 @@ fn english(labeled: Labeled<'_>) -> Option<String> {
 }
 
 fn translate(english: &'static str) -> String {
-    // The bundled UI fonts do not all cover the menu's mathematical ellipsis.
+    // craft_menu's bar writes "⋯" (U+22EF, MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS) itself, for the menu of
+    // titles that don't fit: a sentinel to translate, not an English phrase, and the only one of
+    // its four reserved labels no font this app ships or falls back to has a glyph for.
+    // MissingGlyphPolicy::Panic (egui 0.37) crashes on it. The ordinary ellipsis every other
+    // truncated label in this app already uses is in the bundled faces.
     if english == "\u{22ef}" {
-        return "...".to_owned();
+        return "…".to_owned();
     }
     tl!(english).to_owned()
 }
@@ -662,6 +666,22 @@ mod tests {
         bar.find(command).unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{} is in the menus", command.key()))
     }
 
+    /// The bar's own overflow-menu sentinel is not rendered as typed: no font this app ships or
+    /// falls back to has U+22EF, and egui 0.37's `MissingGlyphPolicy::Panic` crashes on it when
+    /// the menu bar is narrow enough to need it. The editing tests that narrow the window while a
+    /// paragraph is open reproduce this end to end. The other three reserved labels are plain
+    /// ASCII, so untranslated is safe for them.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_overflow_menu_sentinel_is_not_passed_through_untranslated() {
+        crate::i18n::set_current(crate::i18n::Lang::EN);
+        let translated = translate("⋯");
+        assert_ne!(translated, "⋯", "no installed font has this glyph");
+        assert_eq!(translated, "…", "the ordinary ellipsis the rest of the app already uses");
+        for label in ["Menu", "Scroll menu up", "Scroll menu down"] {
+            assert_eq!(translate(label), label, "plain ASCII reserved labels need no substitution");
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn every_menu_command_is_listed_once_with_its_shortcut() {
         let (app, ctx) = app(&["a.pdf"]);