Subject: bug#37633: Column part interpreted wrong in compilation mode

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 22:14:38 +0300

> From: Bernd Paysan <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 20:54:38 +0200
> 
> > We cannot use 'exact' here because there's no file per se: we only
> > have the compiler output.  We must use 'approximate'.
> 
> The buffer that matters is not the compiler output, it's the buffer of the 
> source code.

But the column numbers are counted in the compiler output, and no one
said that the compiler output must be encoded the same as the source
file.