Erlang OTP 17.0 has been released
From the news release:
Erlang/OTP 17.0 is a new major release with new features, characteristics improvements, as well as some minor incompatibilities. See the README file and the documentation for more details.
Among other things, the README file reports:
OTP-11719
The default encoding of Erlang files has been changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
The encoding of XML files has also been changed to UTF-8.
A reminder that supporting UTF-8 as UTF-8 is greatly preferred.