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authorSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2014-11-18 10:07:16 +0100
committerSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2014-11-18 10:07:16 +0100
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Merge branch 'siri/no-unicode-atoms/OTP-12172' into maint
* siri/no-unicode-atoms/OTP-12172: Remove comments about unicode atoms in OTP 18
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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
index bebfbd4514..29b8940c62 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
@@ -50,12 +50,8 @@
encoded files in several circumstances. Most notable is the support
for UTF-8 in files read by <c>file:consult/1</c>, release handler support
for UTF-8 and more support for Unicode character sets in the
- I/O-system.</p>
-
- <p>In Erlang/OTP 17.0, the encoding default for Erlang source files was
- switched to UTF-8 and in Erlang/OTP 18.0 Erlang will support atoms in the full
- Unicode range, meaning full Unicode function and module
- names</p>
+ I/O-system. In Erlang/OTP 17.0, the encoding default for Erlang source files was
+ switched to UTF-8.</p>
<p>This guide outlines the current Unicode support and gives a couple
of recipes for working with Unicode data.</p>
@@ -289,8 +285,8 @@
<tag>The language</tag>
<item>Having the source code in UTF-8 also allows you to write
string literals containing Unicode characters with code points &gt;
- 255, although atoms, module names and function names will be
- restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range until the Erlang/OTP 18.0 release. Binary
+ 255, although atoms, module names and function names are
+ restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range. Binary
literals where you use the <c>/utf8</c> type, can also be
expressed using Unicode characters &gt; 255. Having module names
using characters other than 7-bit ASCII can cause trouble on
@@ -385,8 +381,7 @@ external_charlist() = maybe_improper_list(char() |
using characters from the ISO-latin-1 character set and atoms are
restricted to the same ISO-latin-1 range. These restrictions in the
language are of course independent of the encoding of the source
- file. Erlang/OTP 18.0 is expected to handle functions named in
- Unicode as well as Unicode atoms.</p>
+ file.</p>
<section>
<title>Bit-syntax</title>
<p>The bit-syntax contains types for coping with binary data in the