[erlang-patches] Patch to add atom_to_binary, binary_to_atom, and binary_to_existing_atom

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Tony Finch <dot@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Bjorn Gustavsson wrote:
>>
>> Since we plan to support Unicode in R13, we also plan to support Unicode
>> characters in atoms. Therefore, we plan to implement binary_to_atom/1 so
>> that it only accepts binaries containing valid UTF-8 sequences. (We'll
>> also extend list_to_atom/1 so that the list is allowed to contain
>> Unicode characters.)
>
> Will lists use UTF-8, or will they have one unicode code point per list
> element?

Lists will use one Unicode code point per list element. See:

http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0010.html

/Bjorn

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB