
  [;1m-spec atom_to_binary(Atom) -> binary() when Atom :: atom().[0m

[;;4mSince[0m:
  OTP 23.0

  The same as [;;4matom_to_binary[0m [;;4m(Atom, utf8)[0m.

  [;1m-spec atom_to_binary(Atom, Encoding) -> binary()[0m
  [;1m                        when[0m
  [;1m                            Atom :: atom(),[0m
  [;1m                            Encoding :: latin1 | unicode | utf8.[0m

  Returns a binary corresponding to the text representation of [;;4mAtom[0m.
  If [;;4mEncoding[0m is [;;4mlatin1[0m, one byte exists for each character in
  the text representation. If [;;4mEncoding[0m is [;;4mutf8[0m or [;;4municode[0m, the
  characters are encoded using UTF-8 where characters may require
  multiple bytes.

  Change:
    As from Erlang/OTP 20, atoms can contain any Unicode character
    and [;;4matom_to_binary(Atom, latin1)[0m may fail if the text
    representation for [;;4mAtom[0m contains a Unicode character > 255.

  Example:

    > atom_to_binary('Erlang', latin1).
    <<"Erlang">>
