[Bug c++/49973] Column numbers count special characters as multiple columns

[timothy003 at msn dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49973

--- Comment #2 from Timothy Liang <timothy003 at msn dot com> 2011-08-04 
10:36:53 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Depends on how the column numbers are defined.  I think gcc uses bytes from 
> the
> beginning of the line, then 12 is correct (and e.g. for tab characters gcc
> counts them as one instead of 1-8 depending on position too).

That isn't the case here.  Substituting the '中' for another character makes the
column number 10.  Setting -finput-charset=latin1 makes the column number 15.