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@@ -119,16 +119,11 @@
<tcaption>Compressed Data Format when Expanded</tcaption></table>
<marker id="utf8_atoms"/>
<note>
- <p>As from ERTS 5.10 (OTP R16) support
- for UTF-8 encoded atoms has been introduced in the external format.
- However, only characters that can be encoded using Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)
- are currently supported in atoms. The support for UTF-8 encoded atoms
- in the external format has been implemented to be able to support
- all Unicode characters in atoms in <em>some future release</em>.
- Until full Unicode support for atoms has been introduced,
- it is an <em>error</em> to pass atoms containing
- characters that cannot be encoded in Latin-1, and <em>the behavior is
- undefined</em>.</p>
+ <p>As from ERTS 9.0 (OTP 20), UTF-8 encoded atoms may contain any Unicode
+ character. Although the support for UTF-8 encoded atoms in the external
+ format is available since ERTS 5.10 (OTP R16), passing atoms that cannot
+ be encoded in Latin-1 is an <em>error</em> in versions earlier than
+ Erlang/OTP 20, and <em>the behavior is undefined</em>.</p>
<p>When distribution flag <seealso marker="erl_dist_protocol#dflags">
<c>DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS</c></seealso> has been exchanged between both nodes
in the <seealso marker="erl_dist_protocol#distribution_handshake">