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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2013-01-23 18:09:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2013-01-23 18:09:35 +0100 |
| commit | b8e623410d1c22fe6d5fdeb8ccb0b2305533f033 (patch) | |
| tree | 708d64e36e18b61ae1801c02ec3aeef42a697be3 /erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | |
| parent | e99df74bee7c245ec76678e336fcd09d4b51a089 (diff) | |
| parent | d6e3e256b850050b7a86323b2948009d5fcc30a9 (diff) | |
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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
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc/src/erlang.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
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(<<"Erlang">>, 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> |