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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
index f81e36f810..7f25f5b7bc 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
@@ -35,10 +35,11 @@
<modulesummary>Unix 'tar' utility for reading and writing tar archives</modulesummary>
<description>
<p>The <c>erl_tar</c> module archives and extract files to and from
- a tar file. The tar file format is the POSIX extended tar file format
- specified in IEEE Std 1003.1 and ISO/IEC&nbsp;9945-1. That is the same
- format as used by <c>tar</c> program on Solaris, but is not the same
- as used by the GNU tar program.</p>
+ a tar file. <c>erl_tar</c> supports the <c>ustar</c> format
+ (IEEE Std 1003.1 and ISO/IEC&nbsp;9945-1). All modern <c>tar</c>
+ programs (including GNU tar) can read this format. To ensure that
+ that GNU tar produces a tar file that <c>erl_tar</c> can read,
+ give the <c>--format=ustar</c> option to GNU tar.</p>
<p>By convention, the name of a tar file should end in "<c>.tar</c>".
To abide to the convention, you'll need to add "<c>.tar</c>" yourself
to the name.</p>
@@ -65,6 +66,20 @@
</description>
<section>
+ <title>UNICODE SUPPORT</title>
+ <p>If <seealso
+ marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso>
+ returns <c>utf8</c>, path names will be encoded in UTF-8 when
+ creating tar files and path names will be assumed to be encoded in
+ UTF-8 when extracting tar files.</p>
+
+ <p>If <seealso
+ marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso>
+ returns <c>latin1</c>, no translation of path names will be
+ done.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
<title>LIMITATIONS</title>
<p>For maximum compatibility, it is safe to archive files with names
up to 100 characters in length. Such tar files can generally be
@@ -112,8 +127,8 @@
<fsummary>Add a file to an open tar file</fsummary>
<type>
<v>TarDescriptor = term()</v>
- <v>FilenameOrBin = Filename()|binary()</v>
- <v>Filename = filename()()</v>
+ <v>FilenameOrBin = filename()|binary()</v>
+ <v>Filename = filename()</v>
<v>NameInArchive = filename()</v>
<v>Options = [Option]</v>
<v>Option = dereference|verbose</v>