Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Or maybe you mean the use case where a Latin-1 file is read into an
> Emacs buffer, and each non-ASCII character is expanded into a UTF-8
> sequence.  Indeed, that will make the byte counts inaccurate (and
> etags.el will have to compensate by searching around the specified
> place).  One more reason not to change anything, I guess.

??? It's exactly the counter argument.  The indices in the tag file must
be file offsets, everything else will lead to wrong offsets.

Andreas.

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