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diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml index 884898eb34..d25f2c001d 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml @@ -4,20 +4,21 @@ <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2014</year><year>2014</year> + <year>2014</year><year>2015</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> - The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, - Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in - compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the - Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be - retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. + 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 - Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" - basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See - the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations - under the License. + 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> @@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ <section> <title>Character Set</title> - <p>In Erlang 4.8/OTP R5A the syntax of Erlang tokens was extended to + <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"> @@ -98,25 +99,26 @@ <cell align="center" valign="middle">ø - ÿ</cell> <cell align="left" valign="middle">Lowercase letters</cell> </row> - <tcaption>Character Classes.</tcaption> + <tcaption>Character Classes</tcaption> </table> <p>In Erlang/OTP R16B the syntax of Erlang tokens was extended to - handle Unicode. To begin with the support is limited to - strings, but Erlang/OTP 18 is expected to handle Unicode atoms - as well. More about the usage of Unicode in Erlang source files + 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> - <p>The Erlang source file <marker - id="encoding">encoding</marker> is selected by a + <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 not a valid encoding it is ignored. The - valid encodings are <c>Latin-1</c> and <c>UTF-8</c> where the + 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> @@ -126,7 +128,7 @@ %% For this file we have chosen encoding = Latin-1</pre> <pre> %% -*- coding: latin-1 -*-</pre> - <p>The default encoding for Erlang source files was changed from - Latin-1 to UTF-8 in Erlang OTP 17.0.</p> + <p>The default encoding for Erlang source files is changed from + Latin-1 to UTF-8 since Erlang/OTP 17.0.</p> </section> </chapter> |