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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2017-03-17 12:33:17 +0100
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2017-03-17 13:22:41 +0100
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Update the documentation regarding Unicode atoms
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<tcaption>Character Classes</tcaption>
</table>
<p>In Erlang/OTP R16B the syntax of Erlang tokens was extended to
- handle Unicode. The support is limited to
- string literals and comments. Atoms, module names, and
- function names are restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range.
+ handle Unicode. The support was limited to
+ string literals and comments.
More about the usage of Unicode in Erlang source files
can be found in <seealso
marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_in_erlang">STDLIB's User's
Guide</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>From Erlang/OTP 20, atoms and function names are also allowed
+ to contain Unicode characters outside the ISO-Latin-1 range.
+ Module names are still restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Source File Encoding</title>