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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2013-01-23 18:09:35 +0100
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2013-01-23 18:09:35 +0100
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Merge branch 'sverk/r16/utf8-atoms'
* sverk/r16/utf8-atoms: erl_interface: Fix bug when transcoding atoms from and to UTF8 erl_interface: Changed erlang_char_encoding interface erts: Testcase doing unicode atom printout with ~w erl_interface: even more utf8 atom stuff erts: Fix bug in analyze_utf8 causing faulty latin1 detection Add UTF-8 node name support for epmd workaround... Fix merge conflict with hasse UTF-8 atom documentation test case erl_interface: utf8 atoms continued Add utf8 atom distribution test cases atom fixes for NIFs and atom_to_binary UTF-8 support for distribution Implement UTF-8 atom support for jinterface erl_interface: Enable decode of unicode atoms stdlib: Fix printing of unicode atoms erts: Change internal representation of atoms to utf8 erts: Refactor rename DFLAG(S)_INTERNAL_TAGS for conformity Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/io.c OTP-10753
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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index d09f286e36..315dc323ba 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -277,7 +277,9 @@
the binary contains Unicode characters greater than 16#FF.
In a future release, such Unicode characters might be allowed
and <c>binary_to_atom(<anno>Binary</anno>, utf8)</c>
- will not fail in that case.</p></note>
+ will not fail in that case. For more information on Unicode support in atoms
+ see <seealso marker="erl_ext_dist#utf8_atoms">note on UTF-8 encoded atoms</seealso>
+ in the chapter about the external term format in the ERTS User's Guide.</p></note>
<pre>
> <input>binary_to_atom(&lt;&lt;"Erlang"&gt;&gt;, latin1).</input>
@@ -1712,9 +1714,11 @@ os_prompt% </pre>
<desc>
<p>Returns the atom whose text representation is <c><anno>String</anno></c>.</p>
<p><c><anno>String</anno></c> may only contain ISO-latin-1
- characterns (i.e. numbers below 256) as the current
+ characters (i.e. numbers below 256) as the current
implementation does not allow unicode characters >= 256 in
- atoms.</p>
+ atoms. For more information on Unicode support in atoms
+ see <seealso marker="erl_ext_dist#utf8_atoms">note on UTF-8 encoded atoms</seealso>
+ in the chapter about the external term format in the ERTS User's Guide.</p>
<pre>
> <input>list_to_atom("Erlang").</input>
'Erlang'</pre>