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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index b3ec9fd33d..6d4b1cb2db 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -1630,6 +1630,11 @@ <desc> <p>Sets the current working directory of the file server to <c><anno>Dir</anno></c>. Returns <c>ok</c> if successful.</p> + <p>The functions in the <c>file</c> module usually treat binaries + as raw filenames, i.e. they are passed as is even when the encoding + of the binary does not agree with <c>file:native_name_encoding()</c>. + This function however expects binaries to be encoded according to the + value returned by <c>file:native_name_encoding()</c>.</p> <p>Typical error reasons are:</p> <taglist> <tag><c>enoent</c></tag> @@ -1654,8 +1659,8 @@ <tag><c>no_translation</c></tag> <item> <p><c><anno>Dir</anno></c> is a <c>binary()</c> with - characters coded in ISO-latin-1 and the VM was started - with the parameter <c>+fnue</c>.</p> + characters coded in ISO-latin-1 and the VM is operating + with unicode file name encoding.</p> </item> </taglist> <warning> |