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| author | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2014-11-11 15:16:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2014-11-11 15:35:34 +0100 |
| commit | 08504087f66ab23e39c082782524e2d1e531e3e7 (patch) | |
| tree | e8b1eb365cdc6d4d9fadc942eeb4d1f6ac59fd32 /erts | |
| parent | fdc3edacb5577688dd3d92bba6194321c06537b3 (diff) | |
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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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| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml index fa083db4c7..a6e7dddbed 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml @@ -126,9 +126,8 @@ 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> |