patch 8.1.0859: "%v" in 'errorformat' does handle multi-byte characters commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c45eb770a5988734ff2c572e5e2ce307158c33c8 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Jan 31 14:27:04 2019 +0100 patch 8.1.0859: "%v" in 'errorformat' does handle multi-byte characters Problem: "%v" in 'errorformat' does handle multi-byte characters. Solution: Handle multi-byte characters. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3700)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!