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| author | Björn Gustavsson <bjorn@erlang.org> | 2017-03-17 12:33:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Björn Gustavsson <bjorn@erlang.org> | 2017-03-17 13:22:41 +0100 |
| commit | 6fe3935bc51c0fc62b2d740ac43e64ff276bbef8 (patch) | |
| tree | 5b47e1be45697cf2e879ba0a1f04a493a0d59d54 /system/doc | |
| parent | fc3b5a1a287780bced92f2f1a1744bf86d7b9ba2 (diff) | |
| download | erlang-6fe3935bc51c0fc62b2d740ac43e64ff276bbef8.tar.gz | |
Update the documentation regarding Unicode atoms
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| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/reference_manual/character_set.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
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 @@ <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. + 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 <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#unicode_in_erlang">STDLIB's User's Guide</seealso>.</p> + <p>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.</p> </section> <section> <title>Source File Encoding</title> |