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Diffstat (limited to 'erts/preloaded')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/preloaded/src/init.erl | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/preloaded/src/init.erl b/erts/preloaded/src/init.erl index 87003d096b..ab8464956c 100644 --- a/erts/preloaded/src/init.erl +++ b/erts/preloaded/src/init.erl @@ -465,7 +465,10 @@ make_permanent(Boot,Config,Flags0,State) -> set_flag(_Flag,false,Flags) -> {ok,Flags}; set_flag(Flag,Value,Flags) when is_list(Value) -> - case catch list_to_binary(Value) of + %% The flag here can be -boot or -config, which means the value is + %% a file name! Thus the file name encoding is used when coverting. + Encoding = file:native_name_encoding(), + case catch unicode:characters_to_binary(Value,Encoding,Encoding) of {'EXIT',_} -> {error,badarg}; AValue -> |