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| author | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2014-11-11 15:16:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2014-11-11 15:35:34 +0100 |
| commit | 08504087f66ab23e39c082782524e2d1e531e3e7 (patch) | |
| tree | e8b1eb365cdc6d4d9fadc942eeb4d1f6ac59fd32 /system/doc | |
| parent | fdc3edacb5577688dd3d92bba6194321c06537b3 (diff) | |
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Remove comments about unicode atoms in OTP 18
There was once a plan to implement support for unicode atoms in OTP
18. This plan has been stopped until further notice, and the
information about this is now removed from the documentation.
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| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml index 884898eb34..b09b484582 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml @@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ <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> |