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<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2012</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -150,6 +150,17 @@
</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>