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diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d25f2c001d --- /dev/null +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> +<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> + +<chapter> + <header> + <copyright> + <year>2014</year><year>2015</year> + <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> + </copyright> + <legalnotice> + Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); + you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. + You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + + Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + limitations under the License. + + </legalnotice> + + <title>Character Set and Source File Encoding</title> + <prepared></prepared> + <docno></docno> + <date></date> + <rev></rev> + <file>character_set.xml</file> + </header> + + <section> + <title>Character Set</title> + <p>Since Erlang 4.8/OTP R5A, the syntax of Erlang tokens is extended to + allow the use of the full ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character set. This + is noticeable in the following ways:</p> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>All the Latin-1 printable characters can be used and are + shown without the escape backslash convention.</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Atoms and variables can use all Latin-1 letters.</p> + </item> + </list> + <table> + <row> + <cell align="left" valign="middle"><em>Octal</em></cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle"><em>Decimal</em></cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle"> </cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle"><em>Class</em></cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">200 - 237</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">128 - 159</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle"> </cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">Control characters</cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">240 - 277</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">160 - 191</cell> + <cell align="right" valign="middle">- ¿</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">Punctuation characters</cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">300 - 326</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">192 - 214</cell> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">À - Ö</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">Uppercase letters</cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">327</cell> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">215</cell> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">×</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">Punctuation character</cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">330 - 336</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">216 - 222</cell> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">Ø - Þ</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">Uppercase letters</cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">337 - 366</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">223 - 246</cell> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">ß - ö</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">Lowercase letters</cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">367</cell> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">247</cell> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">÷</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">Punctuation character</cell> + </row> + <row> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">370 - 377</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">248 - 255</cell> + <cell align="center" valign="middle">ø - ÿ</cell> + <cell align="left" valign="middle">Lowercase letters</cell> + </row> + <tcaption>Character Classes</tcaption> + </table> + <p>In Erlang/OTP R16B the syntax of Erlang tokens was extended to + handle Unicode. The support is limited to + string literals and comments. Atoms, module names, and + function names are restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range. + More about the usage of Unicode in Erlang source files + can be found in <seealso + marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_in_erlang">STDLIB's User's + Guide</seealso>.</p> + </section> + <section> + <title>Source File Encoding</title> + <marker id="encoding"></marker> + <p>The Erlang source file <c>encoding</c> is selected by a + comment in one of the first two lines of the source file. The + first string that matches the regular expression + <c>coding\s*[:=]\s*([-a-zA-Z0-9])+</c> selects the encoding. If + the matching string is an invalid encoding, it is ignored. The + valid encodings are <c>Latin-1</c> and <c>UTF-8</c>, where the + case of the characters can be chosen freely.</p> + <p>The following example selects UTF-8 as default encoding:</p> + <pre> +%% coding: utf-8</pre> + <p>Two more examples, both selecting Latin-1 as default encoding:</p> + <pre> +%% For this file we have chosen encoding = Latin-1</pre> + <pre> +%% -*- coding: latin-1 -*-</pre> + <p>The default encoding for Erlang source files is changed from + Latin-1 to UTF-8 since Erlang/OTP 17.0.</p> + </section> +</chapter> |