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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2014</year><year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
under the License.
</legalnotice>
<title>Character Set and Source File Encoding</title>
<prepared></prepared>
<docno></docno>
<date></date>
<rev></rev>
<file>character_set.xml</file>
</header>
<section>
<title>Character Set</title>
<p>Since Erlang 4.8/OTP R5A, the syntax of Erlang tokens is extended to
allow the use of the full ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character set. This
is noticeable in the following ways:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>All the Latin-1 printable characters can be used and are
shown without the escape backslash convention.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Atoms and variables can use all Latin-1 letters.</p>
</item>
</list>
<table>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"><em>Octal</em></cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"><em>Decimal</em></cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"> </cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"><em>Class</em></cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">200 - 237</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">128 - 159</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle"> </cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Control characters</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">240 - 277</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">160 - 191</cell>
<cell align="right" valign="middle">- ¿</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Punctuation characters</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">300 - 326</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">192 - 214</cell>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">À - Ö</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Uppercase letters</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">327</cell>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">215</cell>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">×</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Punctuation character</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">330 - 336</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">216 - 222</cell>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">Ø - Þ</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Uppercase letters</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">337 - 366</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">223 - 246</cell>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">ß - ö</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Lowercase letters</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">367</cell>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">247</cell>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">÷</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Punctuation character</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">370 - 377</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">248 - 255</cell>
<cell align="center" valign="middle">ø - ÿ</cell>
<cell align="left" valign="middle">Lowercase letters</cell>
</row>
<tcaption>Character Classes</tcaption>
</table>
<p>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.
More about the usage of Unicode in Erlang source files
can be found in <seealso
marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_in_erlang">STDLIB's User's
Guide</seealso>.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Source File Encoding</title>
<marker id="encoding"></marker>
<p>The Erlang source file <c>encoding</c> is selected by a
comment in one of the first two lines of the source file. The
first string that matches the regular expression
<c>coding\s*[:=]\s*([-a-zA-Z0-9])+</c> selects the encoding. If
the matching string is an invalid encoding, it is ignored. The
valid encodings are <c>Latin-1</c> and <c>UTF-8</c>, where the
case of the characters can be chosen freely.</p>
<p>The following example selects UTF-8 as default encoding:</p>
<pre>
%% coding: utf-8</pre>
<p>Two more examples, both selecting Latin-1 as default encoding:</p>
<pre>
%% For this file we have chosen encoding = Latin-1</pre>
<pre>
%% -*- coding: latin-1 -*-</pre>
<p>The default encoding for Erlang source files is changed from
Latin-1 to UTF-8 since Erlang/OTP 17.0.</p>
</section>
</chapter>
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