Bug#315882: iconv: report character number as well as byte number
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/iconv
Tags: upstream
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: want to go to the 2345th byte, not character
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Eli> Can you tell why you need that?
> iconv said there was a problem at the 2345th character in that file
> and I wanted to see what the file looked like around there.
I hope you filed a bug report with the iconv maintainers, asking them
to report the character number as well as the byte number. I don't
see why Emacs should fix the entire world out there.
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