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. --- system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'system/doc/reference_manual') diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml index 884898eb34..b09b484582 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml @@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ Character Classes.

In Erlang/OTP R16B the syntax of Erlang tokens was extended to - handle Unicode. To begin with the support is limited to - strings, but Erlang/OTP 18 is expected to handle Unicode atoms - as well. More about the usage of Unicode in Erlang source files + handle Unicode. The support is limited to + string literals and comments. Atoms, module names, and + function names are restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range. + More about the usage of Unicode in Erlang source files can be found in STDLIB's User's Guide.

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