From 08504087f66ab23e39c082782524e2d1e531e3e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siri Hansen Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:16:03 +0100 Subject: Remove comments about unicode atoms in OTP 18 There was once a plan to implement support for unicode atoms in OTP 18. This plan has been stopped until further notice, and the information about this is now removed from the documentation. --- erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'erts/doc/src') diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml index fa083db4c7..a6e7dddbed 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml @@ -126,9 +126,8 @@ However, only characters that can be encoded using Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) are currently supported in atoms. The support for UTF-8 encoded atoms in the external format has been implemented in order to be able to support - all Unicode characters in atoms in some future release. Full - support for Unicode atoms will not happen before OTP-R18, and might - be introduced even later than that. Until full Unicode support for + all Unicode characters in atoms in some future release. + Until full Unicode support for atoms has been introduced, it is an error to pass atoms containing characters that cannot be encoded in Latin1, and the behavior is undefined.

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