commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/7280140c08799f683ef31a6c1019e283c3dc13aa Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Feb 9 11:37:50 2016 +0100 patch 7.4.1294 Problem: job_stop() only kills the started process. Solution: Send the signal to the process group. (Olaf Dabrunz)

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