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| author | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2014-04-09 12:42:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2014-05-08 14:26:27 +0200 |
| commit | 61138cb31e1f6ad44d3ca54e668de9d2d4adb2ec (patch) | |
| tree | ded5ff5de1c9f386601a7e16ac922ab279650fe4 /lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml | |
| parent | 07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79 (diff) | |
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Support path names with characters outside the US ASCII range
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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml index f81e36f810..afa4196be1 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml @@ -65,6 +65,20 @@ </description> <section> + <title>UNICODE SUPPORT</title> + <p>If <seealso + marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso> + returns <c>utf8</c>, path names will be encoded in UTF-8 when + creating tar files and path names will be assumed to be encoded in + UTF-8 when extracting tar files.</p> + + <p>If <seealso + marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso> + returns <c>latin1</c>, no translation of path names will be + done.</p> + </section> + + <section> <title>LIMITATIONS</title> <p>For maximum compatibility, it is safe to archive files with names up to 100 characters in length. Such tar files can generally be |