From d6de4a147388d609066d202ff68301f1cdb24cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rickard Green <rickard@erlang.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:54:56 +0100
Subject: Clarification in doc of unicode:characters_to_list/2

---
 lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml
index e86f45431f..d822aca89c 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml
@@ -239,8 +239,13 @@
               <c><anno>InEncoding</anno></c>.</p>
           </item>
         </list>
-        <p>Only when <c><anno>InEncoding</anno></c> is one of the UTF
-          encodings, integers in the list are allowed to be &gt; 255.</p>
+	<p>
+	  Note that integers in the list always represent code points
+	  regardless of <c><anno>InEncoding</anno></c> passed. If
+	  <c><anno>InEncoding</anno> latin1</c> is passed, only code
+	  points &lt; 256 are allowed; otherwise, all valid unicode code
+	  points are allowed.
+	</p>
         <p>If <c><anno>InEncoding</anno></c> is <c>latin1</c>, parameter
           <c><anno>Data</anno></c> corresponds to the <c>iodata()</c> type,
           but for <c>unicode</c>, parameter <c><anno>Data</anno></c> can
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