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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index e5ea517492..c25e05c6a0 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -1618,6 +1618,10 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
<fsummary>Convert from text representation to an atom</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns the atom whose text representation is <c><anno>String</anno></c>.</p>
+ <p><c><anno>String</anno></c> may only contain ISO-latin-1
+ characterns (i.e. numbers below 256) as the current
+ implementation does not allow unicode characters >= 256 in
+ atoms.</p>
<pre>
> <input>list_to_atom("Erlang").</input>
'Erlang'</pre>