From 61138cb31e1f6ad44d3ca54e668de9d2d4adb2ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gustavsson?= <bjorn@erlang.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:42:32 +0200
Subject: Support path names with characters outside the US ASCII range

---
 lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc/src')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
index f81e36f810..afa4196be1 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml
@@ -64,6 +64,20 @@
       <seealso marker="#format_error_1">format_error/1</seealso> function.</p>
   </description>
 
+  <section>
+    <title>UNICODE SUPPORT</title>
+    <p>If <seealso
+    marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso>
+    returns <c>utf8</c>, path names will be encoded in UTF-8 when
+    creating tar files and path names will be assumed to be encoded in
+    UTF-8 when extracting tar files.</p>
+
+    <p>If <seealso
+    marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso>
+    returns <c>latin1</c>, no translation of path names will be
+    done.</p>
+  </section>
+
   <section>
     <title>LIMITATIONS</title>
     <p>For maximum compatibility, it is safe to archive files with names
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