patch 8.0.0250: virtcol() does not work well for multi-byte characters commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/0c0590d9827cb07a33c1552cb3558b94bddcb4dc Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Jan 28 13:48:10 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.0250: virtcol() does not work well for multi-byte characters Problem: When virtcol() gets a column that is not the first byte of a multi-byte character the result is unpredictable. (Christian Ludwig) Solution: Correct the column to the first byte of a multi-byte character. Change the utf-8 test to new style.

--- a/src/charset.c
+++ b/src/charset.c
@@ -1296,7 +1296,14 @@ getvcol(
     if (pos->col == MAXCOL)
 	posptr = NULL;  /* continue until the NUL */
     else
+    {
 	posptr = ptr + pos->col;
+#ifdef FEAT_MBYTE
+	if (has_mbyte)
+	    /* always start on the first byte */
+	    posptr -= (*mb_head_off)(line, posptr);
+#endif
+    }
 
     /*
      * This function is used very often, do some speed optimizations.