commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/16b3578f355282846f2600ce77fb344950f0b9ce Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Sep 9 20:29:50 2016 +0200 patch 7.4.2355 Problem: Regexp fails to match when using "\>\)\?". (Ramel) Solution: When a state is already in the list, but addstate_here() is used and the existing state comes later, add the new state anyway.

Test for search('multi-byte char', 'bce')

STARTTEST
:source small.vim
:source mbyte.vim
:set encoding=utf-8
:/^Test bce:/+1
:$put =search('Ａ', 'bce', line('.'))
:1;/^Results:/,$wq! test.out
ENDTEST

Results:

Test bce:
Ａ