From 5b68f914f08479759d36557282aee29f44683d97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans Bolinder <hasse@erlang.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:36:57 +0100
Subject: [stdlib] Remove documentation of ~tp

There seems to be a need for a more elaborate solution when it comes
to recognizing printable Unicode characters.

The ~tp syntax is experimental, and may be removed in R16B.
---
 lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml | 18 ++----------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
index 67edc013d4..fa475804eb 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml
@@ -493,9 +493,8 @@ ok
               <c>~w</c>, but breaks terms whose printed representation
               is longer than one line into many lines and indents each
               line sensibly. It also tries to detect lists of
-              printable characters and to output these as strings. The
-              Unicode translation modifier is used for determining
-              what characters are printable. For example:</p>
+              printable characters and to output these as strings.
+              For example:</p>
             <pre>
 5> <input>T = [{attributes,[[{id,age,1.50000},{mode,explicit},</input>
 <input>{typename,"INTEGER"}], [{id,cho},{mode,explicit},{typename,'Cho'}]]},</input>
@@ -533,19 +532,6 @@ Here T = [{attributes,[[{id,age,1.5},
           {typename,'Person'},
           {tag,{'PRIVATE',3}},
           {mode,implicit}]
-ok</pre>
-            <p>Binaries that look like UTF-8 encoded strings will be
-              output with the string syntax if the Unicode translation
-              modifier is given:</p>
-            <pre>
-9> <input>io:fwrite("~p~n",[[1024]]).</input>
-[1024]
-10> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n",[[1024]]).</input>
-"\x{400}"
-11> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n", [&lt;&lt;128,128&gt;&gt;]).</input>
-&lt;&lt;128,128&gt;&gt;
-12> <input>io:fwrite("~tp~n", [&lt;&lt;208,128&gt;&gt;]).</input>
-&lt;&lt;"\x{400}"/utf8&gt;&gt;
 ok</pre>
           </item>
           <tag><c>W</c></tag>
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