Subject: bug#43726: 28.0.50; Misaligned read/unread items in Gnus group buffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:05:25 +0300

> From: Pankaj Jangid <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:39:20 +0530
> Cc: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> I have this output from ‘C-u C-x =’, on normal font line
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>              position: 146 of 1067 (14%), column: 10
>             character: : (displayed as :) (codepoint 58, #o72, #x3a)
>               charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
> code point in charset: 0x3A
>                script: latin
>                syntax: . 	which means: punctuation
>              category: .:Base, >:Not at bol, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 3a" or "C-x 8 RET COLON"
>           buffer code: #x3A
>             file code: #x3A (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
>               display: by this font (glyph code)
>     mac-ct:-*-Menlo-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x1D)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> And on bold line,
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>              position: 181 of 1067 (17%), column: 10
>             character: : (displayed as :) (codepoint 58, #o72, #x3a)
>               charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
> code point in charset: 0x3A
>                script: latin
>                syntax: . 	which means: punctuation
>              category: .:Base, >:Not at bol, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 3a" or "C-x 8 RET COLON"
>           buffer code: #x3A
>             file code: #x3A (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
>               display: by this font (glyph code)
>     mac-ct:-*-Menlo-bold-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x1D)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> See, the position field. What are these 14% and 17% figures?

They tell you that buffer position 146 is 14% into the file and
position 181 is 17% into the file.  IOW, unrelated to the issue at
hand.