Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 19:27:43 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > So etags is only required to produce approximately correct byte
> > positions, and it does that well enough.
> 
> If you want approximate positions then a line-column pair would be
> better.

How do you define a column count?  Doesn't that require counting
characters, rather than bytes?