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| author | Patrik Nyblom <[email protected]> | 2012-08-14 15:02:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Patrik Nyblom <[email protected]> | 2012-08-14 15:04:07 +0200 |
| commit | b6196f5d47c06e6991cfc7e76db3d588a7797302 (patch) | |
| tree | d37f13f978fd5eb6c0f1f0a78812115924df4e6f /erts | |
| parent | e11bbb37273ebd2408d0c83c62770f9ef023879d (diff) | |
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Add documetation about Unicode in environment
Diffstat (limited to 'erts')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 7 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml index f8a92e1ec4..8c028e1d14 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ <p>Force the <c>compressed</c> option on all ETS tables. Only intended for test and evaluation.</p> </item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[+fnl]]></c></tag> + <tag><marker id="file_name_encoding"></marker><c><![CDATA[+fnl]]></c></tag> <item> <p>The VM works with file names as if they are encoded using the ISO-latin-1 encoding, disallowing Unicode characters with codepoints beyond 255. This is default on operating systems that have transparent file naming, i.e. all Unixes except MacOSX.</p> </item> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index e69f223897..248b755969 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -3039,8 +3039,11 @@ os_prompt% </pre> port process. Both <c>Name</c> and <c>Val</c> must be strings. The one exception is <c>Val</c> being the atom <c>false</c> (in analogy with <c>os:getenv/1</c>), which - removes the environment variable. Not available on - VxWorks.</p> + removes the environment variable.</p> + <p>If Unicode filename encoding is in effect (see the <seealso + marker="erts:erl#file_name_encoding">erl manual + page</seealso>), the strings (both <c>Name</c> and + <c>Value</c>) may contain characters with codepoints > 255.</p> </item> <tag><c>{args, [ string() ]}</c></tag> <item> |