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authorSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2014-11-11 15:16:03 +0100
committerSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2014-11-11 15:35:34 +0100
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Remove comments about unicode atoms in OTP 18
There was once a plan to implement support for unicode atoms in OTP 18. This plan has been stopped until further notice, and the information about this is now removed from the documentation.
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However, only characters that can be encoded using Latin1 (ISO-8859-1)
are currently supported in atoms. The support for UTF-8 encoded atoms
in the external format has been implemented in order to be able to support
- all Unicode characters in atoms in <em>some future release</em>. Full
- support for Unicode atoms will not happen before OTP-R18, and might
- be introduced even later than that. Until full Unicode support for
+ all Unicode characters in atoms in <em>some future release</em>.
+ Until full Unicode support for
atoms has been introduced, it is an <em>error</em> to pass atoms containing
characters that cannot be encoded in Latin1, and <em>the behavior is
undefined</em>.</p>