patch 8.0.0657: cannot get and set quickfix list items commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/6a8958db259d4444da6e6956e54a6513c1af8860 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Jun 22 21:33:20 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0657: cannot get and set quickfix list items Problem: Cannot get and set quickfix list items. Solution: Add the "items" argument to getqflist() and setqflist(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan)

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