diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index b922a276e05..9f861b29393 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -992,6 +992,9 @@ of Windows starting with Windows 9X.
 +++
 ** Emacs running on MS-Windows now supports the daemon mode.
 
+** The byte counts in etags-generated TAGS files are now the same on
+MS-Windows as they are on other platforms.
+
 ** OS X 10.5 or older is no longer supported.
 
 ** OS X on PowerPC is no longer supported.
diff --git a/lib-src/etags.c b/lib-src/etags.c
index f124d290da3..8b7f53c808b 100644
--- a/lib-src/etags.c
+++ b/lib-src/etags.c
@@ -6075,16 +6075,7 @@ readline_internal (linebuffer *lbp, FILE *stream, char const *filename)
 	  if (p > buffer && p[-1] == '\r')
 	    {
 	      p -= 1;
-#ifdef DOS_NT
-	     /* Assume CRLF->LF translation will be performed by Emacs
-		when loading this file, so CRs won't appear in the buffer.
-		It would be cleaner to compensate within Emacs;
-		however, Emacs does not know how many CRs were deleted
-		before any given point in the file.  */
-	      chars_deleted = 1;
-#else
 	      chars_deleted = 2;
-#endif
 	    }
 	  else
 	    {
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
index 60ea456d57c..9ff164e15ef 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
@@ -1355,9 +1355,16 @@ hits the start of file."
 	    pat (concat (if (eq selective-display t)
 			    "\\(^\\|\^m\\)" "^")
 			(regexp-quote (car tag-info))))
-      ;; The character position in the tags table is 0-origin.
+      ;; The character position in the tags table is 0-origin and counts CRs.
       ;; Convert it to a 1-origin Emacs character position.
-      (if startpos (setq startpos (1+ startpos)))
+      (when startpos
+        (setq startpos (1+ startpos))
+        (when (and line
+                   (eq 1 (coding-system-eol-type buffer-file-coding-system)))
+          ;; Act as if CRs were elided from all preceding lines.
+          ;; Although this doesn't always give exactly the correct position,
+          ;; it does typically improve the guess.
+          (setq startpos (- startpos (1- line)))))
       ;; If no char pos was given, try the given line number.
       (or startpos
 	  (if line