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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml5
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml19
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml76
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml71
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/proc_lib.xml9
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml20
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml18
7 files changed, 128 insertions, 90 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml
index bfe8494a73..e4ce841a8a 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
<datatype>
<name name="ascii_string"/>
</datatype>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="ascii_binary"/>
+ <desc><p>A <c>binary()</c> with ASCII characters in the range 1 to 255.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
</datatypes>
<funcs>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml
index 3e8aba2e5f..df7bf883fc 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2012</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@
<fsummary>Return a string representation of an encoding</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns a string representation of an encoding. The string
- is recognized by <c>read_encoding/1,2</c> and
+ is recognized by <c>read_encoding/1,2</c>,
+ <c>read_encoding_from_binary/1,2</c>, and
<c>set_encoding/1</c> as a valid encoding.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -128,6 +129,20 @@
</desc>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="read_encoding_from_binary" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="read_encoding_from_binary" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Read the encoding from a binary</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Read the <seealso marker="#encoding">encoding</seealso> from
+ a binary. Returns the read encoding, or <c>none</c> if no
+ valid encoding was found.</p>
+ <p>The option <c>in_comment_only</c> is <c>true</c> by
+ default, which is correct for Erlang source files. If set to
+ <c>false</c> the encoding string does not necessarily have to
+ occur in a comment.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="set_encoding" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Read and set the encoding of an IO device</fsummary>
<desc>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
index 22cd45a482..fa475804eb 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2012</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -306,6 +306,11 @@
<item>
<p>The parsing failed.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{error, <anno>ErrorDescription</anno>}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Other (rare) error condition, for instance <c>{error, estale}</c>
+ if reading from an NFS file system.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -333,6 +338,11 @@
<item>
<p>The parsing failed.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{error, <anno>ErrorDescription</anno>}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Other (rare) error condition, for instance <c>{error, estale}</c>
+ if reading from an NFS file system.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -440,9 +450,12 @@ ok</pre>
</item>
<tag><c>s</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>Prints the argument with the <c>string</c> syntax. The
+ <p>Prints the argument with the string syntax. The
argument is, if no Unicode translation modifier is present, an
- iolist(), a binary, or an atom. If the Unicode translation modifier (<c>t</c>) is in effect, the argument is unicode:chardata(), meaning that binaries are in UTF-8. The characters
+ <c>iolist()</c>, a <c>binary()</c>, or an <c>atom()</c>.
+ If the Unicode translation modifier (<c>t</c>) is in effect,
+ the argument is <c>unicode:chardata()</c>, meaning that
+ binaries are in UTF-8. The characters
are printed without quotes. The string is first truncated
by the given precision and then padded and justified
to the given field width. The default precision is the field width.</p>
@@ -480,9 +493,8 @@ ok
<c>~w</c>, but breaks terms whose printed representation
is longer than one line into many lines and indents each
line sensibly. It also tries to detect lists of
- printable characters and to output these as strings. The
- Unicode translation modifier is used for determining
- what characters are printable. For example:</p>
+ printable characters and to output these as strings.
+ For example:</p>
<pre>
5> <input>T = [{attributes,[[{id,age,1.50000},{mode,explicit},</input>
<input>{typename,"INTEGER"}], [{id,cho},{mode,explicit},{typename,'Cho'}]]},</input>
@@ -521,19 +533,6 @@ Here T = [{attributes,[[{id,age,1.5},
{tag,{'PRIVATE',3}},
{mode,implicit}]
ok</pre>
- <p>Binaries that look like UTF-8 encoded strings will be
- output with the string syntax if the Unicode translation
- modifier is given:</p>
- <pre>
-9> <input>io:fwrite("~p~n",[[1024]]).</input>
-[1024]
-10> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n",[[1024]]).</input>
-"\x{400}"
-11> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n", [&lt;&lt;128,128&gt;&gt;]).</input>
-&lt;&lt;128,128&gt;&gt;
-12> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n", [&lt;&lt;208,128&gt;&gt;]).</input>
-&lt;&lt;"\x{400}"/utf8&gt;&gt;
-ok</pre>
</item>
<tag><c>W</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -848,12 +847,21 @@ enter><input>:</input> <input>alan</input> <input>:</input> <input>joe</in
</item>
<tag><c>{eof, EndLocation}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>End of file was encountered.</p>
+ <p>End of file was encountered by the tokenizer.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>eof</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>End of file was encountered by the I/O-server.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{error, ErrorInfo, ErrorLocation}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>An error occurred.</p>
+ <p>An error occurred while tokenizing.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{error, <anno>ErrorDescription</anno>}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Other (rare) error condition, for instance <c>{error, estale}</c>
+ if reading from an NFS file system.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre>
@@ -910,12 +918,21 @@ enter><input>1.0er.</input>
</item>
<tag><c>{eof, EndLocation}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>End of file was encountered.</p>
+ <p>End of file was encountered by the tokenizer.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>eof</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>End of file was encountered by the I/O-server.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{error, ErrorInfo, ErrorLocation}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>An error occurred.</p>
+ <p>An error occurred while tokenizing or parsing.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{error, <anno>ErrorDescription</anno>}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Other (rare) error condition, for instance <c>{error, estale}</c>
+ if reading from an NFS file system.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre>
@@ -952,12 +969,21 @@ enter><input>abc("hey".</input>
</item>
<tag><c>{eof, EndLocation}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>End of file was encountered.</p>
+ <p>End of file was encountered by the tokenizer.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>eof</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>End of file was encountered by the I/O-server.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{error, ErrorInfo, ErrorLocation}</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>An error occurred.</p>
+ <p>An error occurred while tokenizing or parsing.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{error, <anno>ErrorDescription</anno>}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Other (rare) error condition, for instance <c>{error, estale}</c>
+ if reading from an NFS file system.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
</desc>
</func>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml
index 617a6b74fc..001d34a7c2 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2012</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -43,12 +43,6 @@
<name name="chars"/>
</datatype>
<datatype>
- <name name="unicode_chars"/>
- </datatype>
- <datatype>
- <name name="unicode_string"/>
- </datatype>
- <datatype>
<name name="continuation"/>
<desc><p>A continuation as returned by <seealso marker="#fread/3"><c>fread/3</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
@@ -59,6 +53,9 @@
<datatype>
<name name="fread_error"/>
</datatype>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="latin1_string"/>
+ </datatype>
</datatypes>
<funcs>
<func>
@@ -213,25 +210,25 @@
<name name="write_string" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Write a string</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Returns the list of characters needed to print <c><anno>String</anno></c>
- as a string.</p>
+ <p>Returns the list of characters needed to print
+ <c><anno>String</anno></c> as a string.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="write_unicode_string" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Write a Unicode string</fsummary>
+ <name name="write_string_as_latin1" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Write a string</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns the list of characters needed to print
- <c><anno>UnicodeString</anno></c> as a string.</p>
+ <c><anno>String</anno></c> as a string. Non-Latin-1
+ characters are escaped.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="write_unicode_string_as_latin1" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Write a Unicode string</fsummary>
+ <name name="write_latin1_string" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Write an ISO-latin-1 string</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns the list of characters needed to print
- <c><anno>UnicodeString</anno></c> as a string. Non-Latin-1
- characters are escaped.</p>
+ <c><anno>Latin1String</anno></c> as a string.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -239,24 +236,24 @@
<fsummary>Write a character</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns the list of characters needed to print a character
- constant in the ISO-latin-1 character set.</p>
+ constant in the Unicode character set.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="write_unicode_char" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Write a Unicode character</fsummary>
+ <name name="write_char_as_latin1" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Write a character</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns the list of characters needed to print a character
- constant in the Unicode character set.</p>
+ constant in the Unicode character set. Non-Latin-1 characters
+ are escaped.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="write_unicode_char_as_latin1" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Write a Unicode character</fsummary>
+ <name name="write_latin1_char" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Write an ISO-latin-1 character</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns the list of characters needed to print a character
- constant in the Unicode character set. Non-Latin-1 characters
- are escaped.</p>
+ constant in the ISO-latin-1 character set.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -272,15 +269,15 @@
<fsummary>Test for a list of characters</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns <c>true</c> if <c><anno>Term</anno></c> is a flat list of
- characters in the ISO-latin-1 range, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
+ characters in the Unicode range, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="unicode_char_list" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Test for a list of Unicode characters</fsummary>
+ <name name="latin1_char_list" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Test for a list of ISO-latin-1 characters</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns <c>true</c> if <c><anno>Term</anno></c> is a flat list of
- characters in the Unicode range, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
+ characters in the ISO-latin-1 range, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -288,31 +285,31 @@
<fsummary>Test for a deep list of characters</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns <c>true</c> if <c><anno>Term</anno></c> is a, possibly deep, list
- of characters in the ISO-latin-1 range, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
+ of characters in the Unicode range, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="deep_unicode_char_list" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Test for a deep list of Unicode characters</fsummary>
+ <name name="deep_latin1_char_list" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Test for a deep list of characters</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns <c>true</c> if <c><anno>Term</anno></c> is a, possibly deep, list
- of characters in the Unicode range, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
+ of characters in the ISO-latin-1 range, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
<name name="printable_list" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Test for a list of printable ISO-latin-1 characters</fsummary>
+ <fsummary>Test for a list of printable characters</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns <c>true</c> if <c><anno>Term</anno></c> is a flat list of
- printable ISO-latin-1 characters, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
+ printable Unicode characters, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="printable_unicode_list" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Test for a list of printable Unicode characters</fsummary>
+ <name name="printable_latin1_list" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Test for a list of printable ISO-latin-1 characters</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns <c>true</c> if <c><anno>Term</anno></c> is a flat list of
- printable Unicode characters, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
+ printable ISO-latin-1 characters, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/proc_lib.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/proc_lib.xml
index abc17c4a91..b597074044 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/proc_lib.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/proc_lib.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2011</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -209,6 +209,13 @@ init(Parent) ->
<name name="format" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Format a crash report.</fsummary>
<desc>
+ <p>Equivalent to <c>format(<anno>CrashReport</anno>, latin1)</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="format" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Format a crash report.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
<p>This function can be used by a user defined event handler to
format a crash report. The crash report is sent using
<c>error_logger:error_report(crash_report, <anno>CrashReport</anno>)</c>.
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml
index d235f3e180..deba6adb11 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>1996</year>
- <year>2012</year>
+ <year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -52,19 +52,10 @@
</desc>
</datatype>
<datatype>
- <name name="unicode_char"/>
- <desc>
- <p>An <c>integer()</c> representing a valid Unicode codepoint.</p>
- </desc>
- </datatype>
- <datatype>
<name name="chardata"/>
</datatype>
<datatype>
<name name="charlist"/>
- <desc>
- <p>A <c>unicode_binary()</c> is allowed as the tail of the list.</p>
- </desc>
</datatype>
<datatype>
<name name="external_unicode_binary"/>
@@ -78,10 +69,6 @@
</datatype>
<datatype>
<name name="external_charlist"/>
- <desc>
- <p>An <c>external_unicode_binary()</c> is allowed as the tail
- of the list.</p>
- </desc>
</datatype>
<datatype>
<name name="latin1_binary"/>
@@ -96,11 +83,12 @@
</datatype>
<datatype>
<name name="latin1_chardata"/>
+ <desc><p>The same as <c>iodata()</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
</datatype>
<datatype>
<name name="latin1_charlist"/>
- <desc><p>A <c>latin1_binary()</c> is allowed as the tail of
- the list.</p>
+ <desc><p>The same as <c>iolist()</c>.</p>
</desc>
</datatype>
</datatypes>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
index 320b5b2e84..0a75fbeec0 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>1999</year>
- <year>2012</year>
+ <year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -163,10 +163,10 @@ Erlang R16B (erts-5.10) [source] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V5.10 (abort with ^G)
1> <input>lists:keyfind(encoding, 1, io:getopts()).</input>
{encoding,unicode}
-2> <input>"уницоде"</input>
-"уницоде"
+2> <input>"Юникод"</input>
+"Юникод"
3> <input>io:format("~ts~n", [v(2)]).</input>
-уницоде
+Юникод
ok
4> </pre>
<p>While strings can be input as Unicode characters, the language elements are still limited to the ISO-latin-1 character set. Only character constants and strings are allowed to be beyond that range:</p>
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Erlang R16B (erts-5.10) [source] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V5.10 (abort with ^G)
1> <input>$ξ</input>
958
-2> <input>уницоде.</input>
+2> <input>Юникод.</input>
* 1: illegal character
2> </pre>
</section>
@@ -305,10 +305,10 @@ $ <input>erl</input>
Erlang R16B (erts-5.10) [source] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V5.10 (abort with ^G)
-1> <input>io_lib:format("~ts~n", ["θνιψοδε"]).</input>
-["θνιψοδε","\n"]
-2> <input>io:put_chars(io_lib:format("~ts~n", ["θνιψοδε"])).</input>
-θνιψοδε
+1> <input>io_lib:format("~ts~n", ["Γιούνικοντ"]).</input>
+["Γιούνικοντ","\n"]
+2> <input>io:put_chars(io_lib:format("~ts~n", ["Γιούνικοντ"])).</input>
+Γιούνικοντ
ok</pre>
<p>The Unicode string is returned as a Unicode list, which is recognized as such since the Erlang shell uses the Unicode encoding. The Unicode list is valid input to the <seealso marker="stdlib:io#put_chars/2">io:put_chars/2</seealso> function, so data can be output on any Unicode capable device. If the device is a terminal, characters will be output in the <c>\x{</c>H ...<c>}</c> format if encoding is <c>latin1</c> otherwise in UTF-8 (for the non-interactive terminal - "oldshell" or "noshell") or whatever is suitable to show the character properly (for an interactive terminal - the regular shell). The bottom line is that you can always send Unicode data to the <c>standard_io</c> device. Files will however only accept Unicode codepoints beyond ISO-latin-1 if <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>.</p>
</section>