Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think the problem is not with aligning, otherwise we would simply get > bad aling, and not visible corruption. The ACTUAL PROBLEM is most > probably because of concatenating strings marked as UTF-8 and strings > not marked as UTF-8. Strange things happen then in Perl, unfortunetaly. Sounds quite right---the patch needs to be retitled, if the bug is not about "measuring offset", which I think is what fooled me when I sent my response.