commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/6463ca229cb9412581419497924c85fcbfc854ab Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Feb 13 17:04:46 2016 +0100 patch 7.4.1310 Problem: Jobs don't open a channel. Solution: Create pipes and add them to the channel. Add ch_logfile(). Only Unix for now.

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