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--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2014</year><year>2015</year>
+ <year>2014</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
<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>
+ <p>The syntax of Erlang tokens 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
@@ -102,13 +102,16 @@
<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.
+ handle Unicode. The support was limited to
+ string literals and comments.
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>
+ <p>From Erlang/OTP 20, atoms and function names are also allowed
+ to contain Unicode characters outside the ISO-Latin-1 range.
+ Module names, application names, and node names are still
+ restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Source File Encoding</title>