Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/22/2015 01:30 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > then those will also be wrong after decoding non-ASCII characters,
> > >unless the file was encoded in UTF-8 to begin with, right?
> Yes, of course.  Emacs will have to cope.

Andreas is right, as usual.  TAGS should contain hard info about file 
contents, not guesswork about what Emacs's internal encoding might be, 
as the latter depends on user input.  If the input file is UTF-8 and 
isn't munged by CRLF removal etc., file byte offsets should equal buffer 
byte offsets.  If not, it's up to Emacs to map the hard info to its 
internal representation.