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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml index e9c7c644b5..117c787da6 100644 --- a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml +++ b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/ei.xml @@ -91,14 +91,13 @@ <p/> <code type="none"> enum erlang_char_encoding { - ERLANG_ASCII, ERLANG_LATIN1, ERLANG_UTF8, ERLANG_WHATEVER + ERLANG_ASCII, ERLANG_LATIN1, ERLANG_UTF8 }; </code> <p>The character encoding used for atoms. <c>ERLANG_ASCII</c> represents 7-bit ASCII. Latin1 and UTF8 are different extensions of 7-bit ASCII. All 7-bit ASCII characters are valid Latin1 and UTF8 characters. ASCII and Latin1 both represent each character - by one byte. A UTF8 character can consist of one to four bytes. <c>ERLANG_WHATEVER</c> - is not an encoding but rather used as a wildcard.</p> + by one byte. A UTF8 character can consist of one to four bytes.</p> </item> </taglist> </section> @@ -545,11 +544,13 @@ ei_x_encode_empty_list(&x); want</seealso></c>. The original encoding used in the binary format (latin1 or utf8) can be obtained from <c>*was</c>. The actual encoding of the resulting string (7-bit ascii, latin1 or utf8) can be obtained from <c>*result</c>. Both <c>was</c> and <c>result</c> can be <c>NULL</c>. - <c>*result</c> may differ from <c>want</c> if <c>want</c> is <c>ERLANG_WHATEVER</c> or if - <c>*result</c> turn out to be pure 7-bit ascii (compatible with both latin1 and utf8).</p> + + <c>*result</c> may differ from <c>want</c> if <c>want</c> is a bitwise-or'd combination like + <c>ERLANG_LATIN1|ERLANG_UTF8</c> or if <c>*result</c> turn out to be pure 7-bit ascii + (compatible with both latin1 and utf8).</p> <p>This function fails if the atom is too long for the buffer or if it can not be represented with encoding <c>want</c>.</p> - <p>This functions was introduced in R16 release of Erlang/OTP as part of a first step + <p>This function was introduced in R16 release of Erlang/OTP as part of a first step to support UTF8 atoms.</p> </desc> </func> |