--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el	2013-02-22 13:09:26.000000000 +0400
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el	2013-04-13 22:46:35.209323584 +0400
@@ -2597,7 +2597,11 @@
 	  (setq count 0)		; no misses for type #
 	(setq count (string-to-number output) ; get number of misses.
 	      output (substring output (1+ (string-match " " output 1)))))
-      (setq offset (string-to-number output))
+      ; hunspell reports byte-position instead of char-position
+      ; with multi-byte character input
+      (setq offset (if ispell-really-hunspell
+		       (byte-to-position (string-to-number output))
+		     (string-to-number output)))
       (setq output (if (eq type ?#)     ; No miss or guess list.
                        nil
                      (substring output (1+ (string-match " " output 1)))))