GNU bug report logs - #13431
24.2; UTF-8 causes bad reference position under Emacs Info

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joseph Oswald <josephoswald <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 20704

Found in version 24.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 13431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: josephoswald <at> gmail.com, 13431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13431: 24.2;
 UTF-8 causes bad reference position under Emacs Info
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:33:13 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:44:06 +0200
> Cc: 13431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Joseph Oswald <josephoswald <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I did a bit of investigation: makeinfo apparently generates tag tables
> > using bytes, not characters; it seems Emacs Info is using goto-char
> > without the bytes-to-position conversion.
> 
> I tested this now, and it seemed like it jumped to the right position,
> so somebody fixed this during the past four years?

Yes, see bufferpos-to-filepos.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 333 days ago.

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