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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml12
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_lib.xml14
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 &lt;range&gt;</c> when starting Erlang.</p>
+ <p>Currently the only valid values for <c>&lt;range&gt;</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>