diff --git a/src/tests/testSgfParser.py b/src/tests/testSgfParser.py
--- a/src/tests/testSgfParser.py
+++ b/src/tests/testSgfParser.py
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+from itertools import chain
 import unittest
 from unittest import TestCase
 import os
 
+from sgfParser import strRowCol
 from sgfParser.collection import Collection
 from sgfParser.property import Property
 
@@ -9,6 +11,21 @@ from sgfParser.property import Property
 dataDir=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "data")
 
 
+class TestUtils(TestCase):
+	def testTextPos(self):
+		s="abc\ndef\rgh\r\nij\n\rklmn"
+		rc=[
+			[1,2,3,4],
+			[1,2,3,4],
+			[1,2,3,4],
+			[1,2,3], [1], # don't care about LFCR, we unicode now
+			[1,2,3,4]
+		]
+		res=chain((r+1,c) for (r,row) in enumerate(rc) for c in row)
+		for (i,(r,c)) in zip(range(len(s)+1), res):
+			self.assertEqual(strRowCol(s, i), (r, c))
+
+
 class TestProperty(TestCase):
 	def testName(self):
 		with self.assertRaises(AssertionError):