From b6196f5d47c06e6991cfc7e76db3d588a7797302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrik Nyblom
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:02:43 +0200
Subject: Add documetation about Unicode in environment
---
erts/doc/src/erl.xml | 2 +-
erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 7 +++++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
(limited to 'erts/doc/src')
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
index f8a92e1ec4..8c028e1d14 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@
Force the compressed option on all ETS tables.
Only intended for test and evaluation.
-
+
-
The VM works with file names as if they are encoded using the ISO-latin-1 encoding, disallowing Unicode characters with codepoints beyond 255. This is default on operating systems that have transparent file naming, i.e. all Unixes except MacOSX.
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index e69f223897..248b755969 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -3039,8 +3039,11 @@ os_prompt%
port process. Both Name and Val must be
strings. The one exception is Val being the atom
false (in analogy with os:getenv/1), which
- removes the environment variable. Not available on
- VxWorks.
+ removes the environment variable.
+ If Unicode filename encoding is in effect (see the erl manual
+ page), the strings (both Name and
+ Value) may contain characters with codepoints > 255.
{args, [ string() ]}
-
--
cgit v1.2.3