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diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/introduction.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/introduction.xml index aa42967625..36bec17825 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/introduction.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/introduction.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2003</year><year>2013</year> + <year>2003</year><year>2014</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -79,88 +79,5 @@ when xor</p> </section> - <section> - <title>Character Set</title> - <p>In Erlang 4.8/OTP R5A the syntax of Erlang tokens was 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 R16 the syntax of Erlang tokens was extended to - handle Unicode. To begin with the support is limited to strings, - but Erlang/OTP R18 is expected to handle Unicode atoms as well. - 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>. The default encoding for Erlang source files - is still Latin-1, but in Erlang/OTP R17 the default encoding - will be UTF-8. The details on how to state the encoding of an - Erlang source file can be found in <seealso - marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">epp(3)</seealso>.</p> - </section> </chapter> |