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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml42
-rw-r--r--erts/emulator/beam/external.c4
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index d9cc5ef936..687ff38cbf 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -8860,18 +8860,36 @@ hello
<p>Option <c>{minor_version, <anno>Version</anno>}</c>
can be used to control some
encoding details. This option was introduced in Erlang/OTP R11B-4.
- The valid values for <c><anno>Version</anno></c> are
- <c>0</c> and <c>1</c>.</p>
- <p>As from Erlang/OTP 17.0, <c>{minor_version, 1}</c> is the default. It
- forces any floats in the term to be encoded in a more
- space-efficient and exact way (namely in the 64-bit IEEE format,
- rather than converted to a textual representation).</p>
- <p>As from Erlang/OTP R11B-4, <c>binary_to_term/1</c> can decode this
- representation.</p>
- <p><c>{minor_version, 0}</c> means that floats are encoded
- using a textual representation. This option is useful to
- ensure that releases before Erlang/OTP R11B-4 can decode resulting
- binary.</p>
+ The valid values for <c><anno>Version</anno></c> are:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>0</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Floats are encoded using a textual representation.
+ This option is useful to ensure that releases before Erlang/OTP
+ R11B-4 can decode resulting binary.</p>
+ <p>This version encode atoms that can be represented by a
+ latin1 string using latin1 encoding while only atoms that
+ cannot be represented by latin1 are encoded using utf8.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>1</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>This is as of Erlang/OTP 17.0 the default. It forces any floats
+ in the term to be encoded in a more space-efficient and exact way
+ (namely in the 64-bit IEEE format, rather than converted to a
+ textual representation). As from Erlang/OTP R11B-4,
+ <c>binary_to_term/1</c> can decode this representation.</p>
+ <p>This version encode atoms that can be represented by a
+ latin1 string using latin1 encoding while only atoms that
+ cannot be represented by latin1 are encoded using utf8.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>2</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Drops usage of the latin1 atom encoding and unconditionally
+ use utf8 encoding for all atoms. This will be changed to the
+ default in a future major release of Erlang/OTP. Erlang/OTP
+ systems as of R16B can decode this representation.</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
<p>See also <seealso marker="#binary_to_term/1">
<c>binary_to_term/1</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/external.c b/erts/emulator/beam/external.c
index 06213daa67..95275847f8 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/external.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/external.c
@@ -1129,8 +1129,10 @@ BIF_RETTYPE term_to_binary_2(BIF_ALIST_2)
case 0:
flags = TERM_TO_BINARY_DFLAGS & ~DFLAG_NEW_FLOATS;
break;
- case 1:
+ case 1: /* Current default... */
flags = TERM_TO_BINARY_DFLAGS;
+ case 2:
+ flags = TERM_TO_BINARY_DFLAGS | DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS;
break;
default:
goto error;