From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Joseph Oswald <josephoswald@gmail.com>
Cc: 13431@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13431: 24.2; UTF-8 causes bad reference position under Emacs Info
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:44:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38stn8d89.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALQ_E59oOkr5P7QGzTxYDJLRPTe_B0ez1VqviFWiY84zzwMSXg@mail.gmail.com> (Joseph Oswald's message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:12:39 -0500")
Joseph Oswald <josephoswald@gmail.com> writes:
> Info files with UTF-8 characters cause bad cursor positioning when
> following references.
>
> In the attached utf8-test info file, following the reference "English"
> positions the point "p" in "speaking", several characters past where
> the reference is located.
>
> utf8-test was generated using makeinfo from texinfo 4.13
>
> 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?
Closing this bug report; please reopen if this is still a problem.
--
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2013-01-13 23:12 bug#13431: 24.2; UTF-8 causes bad reference position under Emacs Info Joseph Oswald
2019-06-27 11:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-06-27 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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