From b15688d40d5147c1122aaad3b82495fbbc4dede8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rickard Green
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:45:16 +0100
Subject: UTF-8 atom documentation
---
erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
(limited to 'erts/doc/src/erlang.xml')
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 5002c48ca1..0077c0096c 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -277,7 +277,9 @@
the binary contains Unicode characters greater than 16#FF.
In a future release, such Unicode characters might be allowed
and binary_to_atom(Binary, utf8)
- will not fail in that case.
+ will not fail in that case. For more information on Unicode support in atoms
+ see note on UTF-8 encoded atoms
+ in the chapter about the external term format in the ERTS User's Guide.
Returns the atom whose text representation is String.
String may only contain ISO-latin-1
- characterns (i.e. numbers below 256) as the current
+ characters (i.e. numbers below 256) as the current
implementation does not allow unicode characters >= 256 in
- atoms.
+ atoms. For more information on Unicode support in atoms
+ see note on UTF-8 encoded atoms
+ in the chapter about the external term format in the ERTS User's Guide.