On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED> wrote: > I think that has to do with your tty settings. For me it's: I think the emphasis was on atoms being arbitrary strings. > 11> list_to_atom([255]). > ÿ Your terminal is broken. It's using ISO 8859-1 when it should be using UTF-8. ;-)