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)

, foo
keyword keyword
all your base 
are belong to vim
1 2 3 4 5 7
'i'   <-- should be 3 ' '
'C'   <-- should be 3 ' '
'a'    <-- should be 4 ' '
'A'<-- should be 0 ' '
'D'   <-- 'D' should be intact
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
"r"    x<-- should be 'x'
"r"  x  <-- should be '  x  '
[This line should contain only the text between the brackets.]
   v   i   m   <-- should show the name of a noted text editor
    6   .   0   <-- and its version number

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