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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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<tcaption>Character Classes.</tcaption>
</table>
<p>In Erlang/OTP R16B the syntax of Erlang tokens was extended to
- handle Unicode. To begin with the support is limited to
- strings, but Erlang/OTP 18 is expected to handle Unicode atoms
- as well. More about the usage of Unicode in Erlang source files
+ 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.
+ 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>