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author | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2017-02-01 12:44:04 +0100 |
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committer | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2017-02-01 12:44:04 +0100 |
commit | 4c8881fdf397757ee7bdbebf6aa9d0c01d5066ab (patch) | |
tree | 5a9cb98eda8f106a31d8f7bc9c5193c9b7d9529d /erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml | |
parent | 3d81b5c93865c621372330ffb826eba157c8d0f7 (diff) | |
parent | 26b59dfe67ef551cd94765557cdd8c79794bcc38 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'josevalim/atu8-chunk/PR-1078/OTP-14178'
* josevalim/atu8-chunk/PR-1078/OTP-14178:
Add new AtU8 beam chunk
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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml index 4f799f8f34..a436a9ca74 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml @@ -119,16 +119,11 @@ <tcaption>Compressed Data Format when Expanded</tcaption></table> <marker id="utf8_atoms"/> <note> - <p>As from ERTS 5.10 (OTP R16) support - for UTF-8 encoded atoms has been introduced in the external format. - However, only characters that can be encoded using Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) - are currently supported in atoms. The support for UTF-8 encoded atoms - in the external format has been implemented to be able to support - 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 Latin-1, and <em>the behavior is - undefined</em>.</p> + <p>As from ERTS 9.0 (OTP 20), UTF-8 encoded atoms may contain any Unicode + character. Although the support for UTF-8 encoded atoms in the external + format is available since ERTS 5.10 (OTP R16), passing atoms that cannot + be encoded in Latin-1 is an <em>error</em> in versions earlier than + Erlang/OTP 20, and <em>the behavior is undefined</em>.</p> <p>When distribution flag <seealso marker="erl_dist_protocol#dflags"> <c>DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS</c></seealso> has been exchanged between both nodes in the <seealso marker="erl_dist_protocol#distribution_handshake"> |