diff --git a/app/helpers/issues_helper.rb b/app/helpers/issues_helper.rb
index 4b1f044cb8..01463ec5cd 100644
--- a/app/helpers/issues_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/issues_helper.rb
@@ -231,15 +231,23 @@ module IssuesHelper
                     :class => issue.css_classes,
                     :title => "#{ truncate(issue.subject, :length => 100) } (#{ issue.status.name })")
     ret += "#{ issue.start_date.nil? ? "[?]" : issue.start_date.to_s }"
-    ret += " - #{ issue.due_date.nil? ? "[?]" : issue.due_date.to_s }"
+    ret += " – #{ issue.due_date.nil? ? "[?]" : issue.due_date.to_s }"
     ret += "#{ issue.assigned_to.nil? ?  " " : " (#{h(issue.assigned_to.to_s)})" }"
     ret
   end
 
   def issue_quick_info_with_description(issue, lines = 3)
-    limited_description = issue.description.to_s.lines.to_a[0,lines + 1].to_s
+    description_lines = issue.description.to_s.lines.to_a[0,lines]
+
+    if description_lines[lines-1] && issue.description.to_s.lines.size > lines
+      description_lines[lines-1].strip!
+
+      while !description_lines[lines-1].end_with?("...") do
+        description_lines[lines-1] = description_lines[lines-1] + "."
+      end
+    end
 
     issue_quick_info(issue) +
-      content_tag(:div, textilizable("\n" + limited_description), :class => "indent")
+      content_tag(:div, textilizable("\n" + description_lines.to_s), :class => "indent")
   end
 end