patch 8.0.0280: problem setting multi-byte environment var on MS-Windows commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/7c23d1d9d9cc1d3d19fe35708da7c5d5b3556e05 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Wed Feb 1 13:14:16 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.0280: problem setting multi-byte environment var on MS-Windows Problem: On MS-Windows setting an environment variable with multi-byte strings does not work well. Solution: Use wputenv when possible. (Taro Muraoka, Ken Takata)

README_src.txt for version 8.0 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-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!