In my LaTeX document I define external anchors using hypertarget{AnchorLabel}{AnchorText} in order to open the resulting PDF document at a desired location. Here is the MWE:
\documentclass[]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[pdfencoding=auto]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\chapter[First chapter - short title]{First chapter - long title}
\hypertarget{TestA}{AAA}
Some text
\clearpage
\section[First Section]{First Section - long title}
\hypertarget{TestB}{BBB}
Some further text
\clearpage
\subsection[A subsection - short title]{A subsection - long title}
\hypertarget{TestC}{CCC}
Some more text
\end{document}
The PDF generation is done using xelatex. The PDF file can be opened on the desired page e.g. using
evince --named-dest=TestC /path/to/file.pdf
(under Linux) or
Call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /a "nameddest=TestC" "C:\path\to\file.pdf"
under Windows.
Generation of PDF with correctly working anchors works fine on a Debian machine with XeTeX version 3.1.415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeXLive 2012 Debian), however does not work on a Windows machine with a current MiKTeX installation (XeTeX version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)). The anchors seem to be broken or non-existent. Strangely enough, if compilation on the Windows machine is done using pdflatex instead of xelatex, everything seems to be fine.
Is it a bug in the current XeTeX version?
