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)

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Program that writes a number to stdout repeatedly
#
# This requires Python 2.6 or later.

from __future__ import print_function
import sys
import time

if __name__ == "__main__":

    done = 0
    while done < 10:
        done = done + 1
        print(done)
        sys.stdout.flush()
        time.sleep(0.05)  # sleep 50 msec