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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml | 14 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml index 63f814ad2e..90f24c4cbc 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml @@ -211,6 +211,18 @@ </desc> </func> <func> + <name name="printable_range" arity="0"/> + <fsummary>Get user requested printable character range</fsummary> + <desc> + <p>Return the user requested range of printable Unicode characters.</p> + <p>The user can request a range of characters that are to be considered printable in heuristic detection of strings by the shell and by the formatting functions. This is done by supplying <c>+pc <range></c> when starting Erlang.</p> + <p>Currently the only valid values for <c><range></c> are <c>latin1</c> and <c>unicode</c>. <c>latin1</c> means that only code points below 256 (with the exception of control characters etc) will be considered printable. <c>unicode</c> means that all printable characters in all unicode character ranges are considered printable by the io functions.</p> + <p>By default, Erlang is started so that only the <c>latin1</c> range of characters will indicate that a list of integers is a string.</p> + <p>The simplest way to utilize the setting is to call <seealso marker="io_lib#printable_list/1">io_lib:printable_list/1</seealso>, which will use the return value of this function to decide if a list is a string of printable characters or not.</p> + <note><p>In the future, this function may return more values and ranges. It is recommended to use the io_lib:printable_list/1 function to avoid compatibility problems.</p></note> + </desc> + </func> + <func> <name name="setopts" arity="1"/> <name name="setopts" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Set options</fsummary> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml index 001d34a7c2..3dac259477 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml @@ -301,7 +301,11 @@ <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 Unicode characters, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p> + printable characters, otherwise it returns <c>false</c>.</p> + <p>What is a printable character in this case is determined by the + <c>+pc</c> start up flag to the Erlang VM. See + <seealso marker="io#printable_range/0">io:printable_range/0</seealso> + and <seealso marker="erts:erl#erl">erl(1)</seealso>.</p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -312,6 +316,14 @@ printable ISO-latin-1 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> + <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> + </desc> + </func> </funcs> </erlref> |