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| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 4 |
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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> |