From 6fe3935bc51c0fc62b2d740ac43e64ff276bbef8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gustavsson?= Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:33:17 +0100 Subject: Update the documentation regarding Unicode atoms --- system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 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 f0f4c23608..1129ad63d8 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml @@ -102,13 +102,15 @@ Character Classes

In Erlang/OTP R16B the syntax of Erlang tokens was extended to - 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. + handle Unicode. The support was limited to + string literals and comments. More about the usage of Unicode in Erlang source files can be found in STDLIB's User's Guide.

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From Erlang/OTP 20, atoms and function names are also allowed + to contain Unicode characters outside the ISO-Latin-1 range. + Module names are still restricted to the ISO-Latin-1 range.

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