commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/e87e6dddc2b2a99572ec0db0833c052214c4fbd3 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Jul 17 19:25:04 2016 +0200 patch 7.4.2061 Problem: qf_init_ext() is too big. Solution: Move code to qf_parse_line() (Yegappan Lakshmanan)

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